Firefighting Unit Vocab

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  1. 4. Fire company responsible for securing a water source, deploying handlines, and putting water on the fire.
  2. 6. Physical, moral, and mental strength of a person.
  3. 8. To make water pressure available on a hose in final preparation for its use. This is done on the scene AFTER the hose is deployed.
  4. 10. Beliefs and material traits of a group.
  5. 13. A fire suppression vehicle that has a water pump and, typically, is designed to carry firehouse and a limited supply of water.
  6. 14. (1) system for detecting and reporting unusual conditions, such as smoke, fire, flood, loss of air, HAZMAT release, etc; (2) a specific assignment of multiple fire companies and/or units to a particular incident, usually of fire in nature; (3) centralized dispatch center for interpreting alarms and dispatching.
  7. 16. Act or course of action required of a firefighter.
  8. 17. Combination of emotional, intellectual, and moral qualities that constitute a person.
  9. 18. A term usually used by firefighters describing a department vehicle (I.e fire engine).
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  1. 1. Two or more firefighters organized as a team, led by a fire officer, and equipped to perform certain operational functions. COmpare with platoon and unit.
  2. 2. The process of emergency responders (fire, police, SAR, emergency, medical, etc...) checking into and making themselves announced as being on-scene during an incident to an incident commander or accountability officer. Through the accountability system, each person is tracked throughout the incident until released from the scene by the incident commander or accountability officer.
  3. 3. A fire officer, typically a lieutenant or captain, who leads a team of two or more firefighters in a company.
  4. 5. A firefighter responsible for driving the engine to the scene of the call and operations of the pumps on an engine, to provide sufficient water to the firefighters on the hose. The term may be a position title or a rank; usage varies among departments.
  5. 7. A structure for managing a department or unit.
  6. 9. Flammable fuel (often liquid) used by some arsonists to increase size or intensity of fire.
  7. 11. Rank in the fire service chain who has overall responsibility for the administration and operations of the fire department.
  8. 12. A fire phenomenon caused when heat and heavy smoke (unburned fuel particles) accumulate inside a compartment, depleting the available aur, and then oxygen/air is re-introduced, completing the fire triangle and causing rapid combustion.
  9. 15. A method of extinguishing a fire which does not involve entering the structure. Often used when so much of the building is involved in fire that there is little or no benefit risking firefighter safety by inserting them into the structure. May be a temporary measure when there are not sufficient personnel on scene to form an entry team and a rescue team (to rescue the entry team).