Tenements Flashcards by Clubber Lang

Tenements:

What is a known life hazard?

Seen
Heard
Info from credible source at scene

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Tenements:

When does size up start?

The receipt of the alarm.

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What is immediate supervision?

Visual or voice contact (within)

Search or hose line

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Do you have to leave a truck member at the apartment door?

Yes

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Tenements:

For a store fire in a tournament where does the Ov go?

To the rear to vent

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Tenements:

Who does the OVM usually team up with if the fire is in the rear? The front?

**generally

Front - LCC

Rear - roof

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What does the roof man do as soon as he reaches the roof?

Confirms his way off.

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Tenements:

When should the roof man perform vertical ventilation?

Immediately upon:

Hearing that the inside team has door control
Hearing a charged hose line is advancing into the fire apartment

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Tenements:

If the officer does not want vertical vent yet, what should the roof man do?

Force open the bulkhead, reach in and probe, immediately closed and control the door

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Tenements:

First truck is a TL with no front fire escape.

OV in bucket?

Who vents the apartment from the rear FE?

Yes

The roof man

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What must the second truck boys do before going above?

Ensure the officers on fire floor know

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Tenements:

What apartment does the second truck check on the floor above?

The apartment above and the adjoining (Especially in 0LT)

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Second LCC duties?

Front of or if not needed then go above the fire

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Second roof man tools?

Halligan
Halligan Hook

Top floor fire: take saw and Halligan hook

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Tenements:

Second truck at a top floor or cockloft fire goes where?

To the top floor

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Tenements:

Second due LCC at a top floor or cockloft fire goes where?

If not needed in front goes to roof

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Tenements:

There is a critical need for more members on the roof at an old law tenement or new law tenement top floor fire?

New law tenement due to the large amount of apartments

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What type of roof requires immediate notification to the incident commander?

Membrane

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Tenements:

More recently have shaft fires originated in the apartment or at the base of the shaft?

In the apartment

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At a shaft fire, once the engine company knocks down the fire in a room what must they do next?

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Knock down the shaft fire before continuing through the apartment for final extinguishment.

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At a shaft fire where are those the second truck position itself?

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To cover the exposed building

Tenements:

What must you check at a dumb waiter fire for extension?

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CCT

Cockloft
Cellar
Top floor

Tenements:

If there is smoke in the dumbwaiter shaft what should the roof fire fighter do?

If there is fire in the shaft what should the roof man do?

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Notify officer

Vent

Tenements:

How should removed scuttles/skylights be placed on roof?

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Upside down

Tenements: When removing metal gates on windows, where should you place the adz or fork?

Opposite the locking device

Tenements: Using the door as a ramp to the bulkhead should be placed how many degrees?

30-45

Tenements: If smoke is issuing from cornice, what should you open? Cornice? Ceiling? Returns?

NEVER the cornice Returns or ceiling

Tenements: Secondary search includes outside building?

Yes - perimeter, shafts, basements etc

Tenements: Who probes besides the roof?

Inside team if apt is too hot and can't enter. OV if entry isn't possible

Tenements: If members on floor above can't find a safe area when engine is ready to advanced then what?

Come back down to FF

Tenements: Do you need permission to take windows from above?

Yes - it's horizontal

Tenements: After VEIS What is the priority action before conducting a search?

Closing the door

Tenements: What cut is the knockout cut?

#2. "knock out" = two words

Tenements: Where should you inspect the cockloft from a position on the top floor? Should you expand that hole at all?

An adjacent room Only if a charged hose line is in position

Tenements: If I was discovered in the car cloth from below, how can you alleviate that new smoke condition?

Ventilate all the windows in the fire apartment

Tenements: What is the order of preference of tools for breaking through a partition wall?

Halligan Hook Axe

Tenements: When taking a partition wall, should you start high or low? Should you take the near side or far side of wall first?

Low **the opposite of taking a bulkhead Near side with tool, then take far side by kicking with foot

Tenements: When does pre-control overhauling begin?

As soon as possible after the fire has been knocked down

Tenements: Where should ceiling be opened to check for extension?

Where the fire was most intense

Tenements: What justifies calling for a handline?

Crackling sound or fiery glow

Tenements: When should a partition be opened up? Where should it be made?

If it is too hot to keep hand on. Above the hotspot (to cut it off)

Tenements: Where should you start to open a baseboard

Start at the corner

Tenements: Are floors often cut at tenements?

No, it is easier to open up from below

Tenements: How should you hold axe to cut floor?

At 60 degree angle to floor aXe = siXty

Tenements: What should be the first part of a window removed?

The trim (it is put on last during construction process)

Tenements: safe number of guys using tools in an OLT room?

Dangerous for more than one or two

Tenements: Where should material not be thrown?

Roofs, narrow shafts, setbacks

Tenements: Should lintels be removed?

Tenements Flashcards

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