Quiz 2 Flashcards
(37 cards)
Colorless, odorless, electrically nonconductive inert gas that is suitable medium for extinguishing Class B and Class C fires. (NFPA 10)
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
A piece of heavy canvas with handles, which can be used to tote debris, ash, embers, and burning materials out of a structure.
Carryall
A toxic gas produced through incomplete combustion.
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Windows in a steel or wood frame that open away from the building via a crank mechanism. These windows have a side hinge.
Casement Windows
A method of piping air tanks together to allow air to be supplied to SCBA fill station using progressive selection of tanks, each with a higher pressure level. (NFPA 1901)
Cascade System
Open space within walls for wires and pipes
Chase
Foam intended for use on Class B fires. (NFPA 1901)
Class B Foam
Self-contained breathing apparatus designed to recycle the user’s exhaled air. This system removes carbon dioxide and generates fresh oxygen.
Closed-Circuit SCBA
The concealed space between the top-floor ceiling and the roof of a building.
Cockloft
A collection of permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the U. S federal government. Its 50 titles represent broad areas of interest that are governed by federal regulation. Each volume is updated annually and issued on a quarterly basis.
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
A type of attack employing both direct attack and indirect attack method.
Combination Attack
a ground ladder that is capable of being used both as a stepladder and as a single or extension ladder. (NFPA 1931)
Combination Ladder
a chemical process of oxidation that occurs at a rate fast enouigh to produce heat and usually light in the form of either a glow or a flame
Combustion
a hand-operated tool used for dragging or lifting heavy objects that uses pulleys and cables or chains to multiply a pulling or lifting force.
Come Along
a foam system that combines air under pressure with foam solution to create foam. (NFPA 1901, 1906)
Compressed air foam system (CAFS)
heat transfer to another body or within a body by direct contact
Conduction
those procedures taken to keep a material, once released, in a defined or local area. (NFPA 472)
Confinement
the actions taken to keep a material in its container (e.g., stop a release of the material or reduce the amount being released.) (NFPA 472)
Containment
heat transfer by circulation within a medium such as a gas or a liquid. (NFPA 921)
Convection
the ability of a material to cause damage (on contact) to skin, eyes, or other parts of the body
Corrosivity
short lengths of timber/composite materials, usually 4”x4” and 18”x24” long that are used in various configurations to stabilize loads in place or while load is moving. (NFPA 1006)
Cribbing
non bearing walls that separate the inside and outside of the building but are not part of the support structure for the building.
Curtain Wall
consists of the weight of all materials of construction incorporated into the building including but no limited to walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, stairways, built-in partitions, finishes, cladding and other similarly incorporated architectural and structural items, fixed service equipment including the weight of cranes.
Dead Load
the physical and/or chemical process of reducing and preventing the spread and effects of contaminants to people, animals, the environment, or equipment involved at hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD) incidents. (NFPA 1072)
Decontamination
