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1
Q

______________ incidents are those issues that could affect the normal flow of traffic.

A

Highway

p 313

2
Q

_________ teams are made up of five of the same kind and type of resources with communications and a leader.

A

Strike teams

p 314

3
Q

____________ __________ Task Forces may contain an indeterminate number of individual resources, constrained only by the command and control guidelines concerning span of control.

A

Traffic Control Task Forces

p 315

4
Q

Large highway incidents usually have one things in common:

They will demand more from the ?

A

initial arriving responders than they can provide

p 312

5
Q

________ Forces organize different types of resources for a particular purpose, as compared to like resources in ________ Teams, that enable the IC to employ a significant number of unlike resources.

A

Task / Strike

p 315

6
Q

Incident Commanders should seriously consider assigning a ______ _____________ unit with each Task Force or Strike Team with Traffic Control tasks.

A

law enforcement

p 315

7
Q

The ___________ ____________ Division manages a well-defined geographical area of a highway incident.

A

Traffic Management

p 316

8
Q

___________ can be functional or geographic.

A

Branches

p 316

9
Q

____________ ____________ is the direction of traffic in the vicinity of a highway incident.

A

Traffic control

p 317

10
Q

The ___________ defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all streets and highways, as well as how to set up work areas and mark incident scenes.

A

MUTCD - The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices

p 317

11
Q

According to the MUTCD, the primary function of temporary traffic control is to provide for the safe and efficient movement of __________, _____________, and _______________ through and around temporary traffic control zones while reasonably protecting workers and equipment.

A

vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians

p 318

12
Q

Using unapproved MUTCD traffic control devices can expose responders organizations to significant ____________.

A

liability

p 319

13
Q

A ___________ shall be a person who provides temporary traffic control.

A

flagger

p 320

14
Q

Flagger training is available in the form of ________ __________ and taught in local communities.

A

short courses

p 320

15
Q

One of the most dangerous time periods in a highway incident is between the occurrence of an ?

A

event and the arrival of responding units

p 322

16
Q

It is generally safe to limit one’s span of control between ________ to ________ subordinates with the optimum of ________.

A

Three to seven / five

p 325