Fire Safety Terms

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  1. 6. A cylindrical area above a fire in which heated air and gases rise and travel upward. The magnitude and intensity of a fire can often be judged from the thermal column.
  2. 13. Personal protective equipment. The helmet, hood, coat, gloves, self-contained breathing apparatus and boots worn by firefighters to protect against heat and water.
  3. 17. The stage of fire when all surfaces and objects are heated to their ignition temperature (flash point) and flame breaks out almost at once over the entire surface.
  4. 19. The minimum temperature at which a fuel, whe heated, will ignite in air and continue to burn; the minimum temperature required to for a self-sustained combustion.
  5. 21. The minimum temperature at which a substance will burn.
  6. 22. A set of legally adopted rules and regulations designed to prevent fires and protect lives and property.
  7. 24. Any instance of open flame or other burning in a place not intended to contain the burning or in an uncontrolled manner.
  8. 25. A chemical reaction in which an element combines with oxygen. All fires are a form of oxidation. Under control. The stage of a fire at which it has been partially extinguished and authorities are confident can be completely extinguished.
  9. 28. Heat transfer within an item or from one to another by direct contact.
  10. 29. A group of firefighters responsible for securing a water source, deploying hose lines, conducting search-and-rescue operations, and putting water on the fire.
  11. 30. monoxide A toxic gas, odorless and colorless, that produced when substances are incompletely burned.
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  1. 1. A professional who provides prehospital care for people who are sick or injured, including transport, medication and the use of defibrillators. EMTs have differing levels of training:
  2. 2. Heat, smoke and toxic gases.
  3. 3. Materials, usually flammable liquids, used to initiate or increase the spread of fire.
  4. 4. The chemical decomposition of a compound into one or more other substances by heat alone; pyrolysis often precedes combustion.
  5. 5. The explosion of heated gases that occurs when oxygen is introduced into a space within a burning building where the oxygen has been depleted by the fire.
  6. 7. An intentionally set fire.
  7. 8. The first trained person to arrive at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.
  8. 9. The main or running edge of a fire, the part of the fire that spreads fastest.
  9. 10. The time a fire company takes to get to a fire and begin fire operations.
  10. 11. An emergency medical technician with the most advanced training, capable of cardiac monitoring, administering drugs, inserting advanced airways, manual defibrillation, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills.
  11. 12. Heat transfer through electromagnetic waves, without objects or gases carrying it along. Radiated heat goes out in all directions, unnoticed until it strikes an object.
  12. 14. The lowest temperature at which a liquid or solid releases enough vapor to ignite when mixed with air.
  13. 15. The rapid spread of flame over surfaces.
  14. 16. A small, burning cyclone that results when heated gases from a fire rise and cooler air rushes into the resulting areas of low pressure; usually occurs during forest and brush fires but also in free-burning structural fires.
  15. 18. A way out or exit.
  16. 20. Immediate Danger to Life and Health. An atmospheric concentration of any toxic, corrosive or asphyxiant substance that poses an immediate threat to life or could cause irreversible or delayed harm to health. There are three IDLH atmospheres: toxic, flammable and oxygen-deficient.
  17. 23. Heat transfer by circulation within a gas or liquid.
  18. 24. Capable of being readily ignited.
  19. 26. The crime of willfully burning one’s own or another’s property.
  20. 27. Capable of reacting with oxygen and burning if ignited.