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Firefighter 2 Certification Exam: Essential Concepts and Procedures, Exams of Safety and Fire Engineering

Sierra CollegeSafety and Fire Engineering

A comprehensive overview of key concepts and procedures for firefighter 2 certification. It covers a wide range of topics, including emergency traffic, search and rescue tools, fire suppression techniques, and fire investigation. Definitions, explanations, and examples, making it a valuable resource for aspiring firefighters preparing for their certification exam.

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Firefighter 2 Certification Exam
(Verified)
1. Responsibilities for FF 2
: Prepare reports, communicate the need for assis- tance, coordinate an
interior attack line team, extinguish an ignitable liquid fire, control a
flammable gas cylinder fire, protect evidence of fire cause and origin, access
and disentangle victims from motor vehicle accidents, assist special rescue
team operations, perform a fire safety survey, present fire safety
information, maintain fire equipment, perform annual service tests on fire
hoses
2. Emergency traffic
: An urgent message that takes priority over all other com- munications
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  1. Responsibilities for FF 2 : Prepare reports, communicate the need for assis- tance, coordinate an interior attack line team, extinguish an ignitable liquid fire, control a flammable gas cylinder fire, protect evidence of fire cause and origin, access and disentangle victims from motor vehicle accidents, assist special rescue team operations, perform a fire safety survey, present fire safety information, maintain fire equipment, perform annual service tests on fire hoses
  2. Emergency traffic : An urgent message that takes priority over all other com- munications
  1. Mayday : Emergency traffic that is used for a firefighter that is downed, lost, missing or needs immediate assistance.
  2. Evacuation signal : Warns all personnel to pull back to a safe location. Usually a sequence of 3 blasts on an apparatus air horn.
  3. National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) : Used to compile and ana- lyze incident reports at the local, state, and national levels.
  4. NIMS Guide 0001

: Pushing tool (short like pole), prying tool (halligan tool), striking tool (sledgehammer or flat-head axe), cutting tool (axe), portable hand light, thermal imaging devices, life lines.

  1. Tool staging : Placing a tarp or salvage cover on the ground at a designated location and laying out commonly used tools and equipment.
  2. Carabiner : Used to connect one rope to another rope or to other hardware such as an anchor plate, swivel, or pulley. NFPA 1983
  3. Harness

: A piece of rescue or safety equipment made of webbing and worn by a person.

  1. Class 2 harness : Seat harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist and legs and has a design load of 600 lbs.
  2. Class 3 harness: Full body harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist and thighs as well as secures the rescuers waist and shoulders.
  3. Trench rescue: Rescue in collapsed trenches.
  1. NFPA 1962: Standard for inspection, care and use of fire hose, couplings, and nozzles and service testing of fire hose.
  2. Annual testing of fire hose: 1. Don PPE 2. Connect 300 ft of hose to a hose testing gate valve on the discharge of FD pumper or hose tester
  3. Hose records: A written history of each individual length of fire hose
  4. Hose line crew: The optimal people on a hose line is 4 personnel
  5. Foam concentrate: Firefighting foam is produced by mixing ??? With water and air to produce a solution that can serve as an effective extinguishing agent.
  6. Class A foam: Used to fight fires involving ordinary combustible materials such as wood, paper, and textiles. It is also effective on organic materials such as straw and hay. Increases the effectiveness of water as an extinguishing agent by reducing the surface tension of water.
  1. Class B foam: Used to fight class B fires, fires involving flammable and combustible liquids. A blanket of foam is used to smother the fuel of the fire putting it out.
  2. Foam solution: The product that is actually applied to extinguish a fire or to cover a spill.
  3. Compressed air foam systems (CAFS): Relatively new method of making Class A foam.
  4. Compressed air foam (CAF): Produced by injecting compressed air into a stream of water that has been mixed with 0.1 percent to 1 percent foam.
  5. Protein foam: Made from animal by-products. They are effective on Class B hydrocarbon fires and are applied in 3 percent or 6 percent
  1. Fluoroprotein foam: Made from the same base materials as protein foam but include additional fluorochemical surfactant additives.
  2. Film-forming fluoroprotein (FFFP): Composed of protein plus film- forming fluorinated surface-active agents, which make them capable of forming water solution films on the surface of most flammable hydrocarbons and of conferring a fuel-shedding property of the foam generated.
  3. Aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF): A synthetic based foam that is particu- larly suitable for spill related fires involving gasoline and light hydrocarbon fuels.
  4. Alcohol-resistant foam: Formulated so that alcohols and other polar solvents do not dissolve the foam.
  5. Foam proportioner: The device that mixes the foam concentrate into the fire stream in the proper percentage.
  6. Foam eductor: Draws foam concentrate from a container or storage tank into a moving stream of water.
  7. Foam injectors: Add the foam concentrate to the water stream under pres- sure.
  8. Batch mixing: When foam concentrate is poured directly into an apparatus booster tank to produce foam solution.
  1. Premixed foam: Foam fire extinguishers are filled with premixed foam solution and pressurized with compressed air or nitrogen.
  2. Aerating nozzle: Nozzle that is designed to introduce more air into the stream and produce a consistent bubble structure.
  3. Roll on method (Sweep): Firefighter sweeps the stream along the ground just in front of the target to produce a quantity of foam and then uses the energy of the stream to push the foam blanket across the surface.
  4. Bankshot method: The use of an object to deflect the foam stream and let it flow down onto the burning surface.
  5. Rain down method: Lofting the foam stream into the air above the fire and letting it fall down gently on the surface.
  6. Generator: Supply of electricity to a scene that needs it.
  7. Ventalation: Must be coordinated with fire suppression efforts to ensure that both events occur simultaneously and in a manner that supports the attack plan.
  8. Posts: Vertical support members of a vehicle that hold up the roof and form the upright columns of the passenger compartment.
  1. NFPA 921: A scientific method and a systematic analysis are needed to deter- mine the origin and cause of a fire.
  2. Physical evidence: Items that can be observed, photographed, measured, collected, examined in a laboratory and presented in court to prove or demonstrate a point.
  3. Trace evidence: A minute quantity of physical evidence that is conveyed from one place to another. Ex. A suspects clothing.
  4. Demonstrative evidence: Anything that can be used to validate a theory or to show how something could have occurred.
  5. Direct evidence: Facts that can be observed or reported first-hand.
  6. Circumstantial evidence: Is information that can be used to prove a theory; based on facts that were observed directly.
  7. Arsonist: A person that deliberately sets a fire with criminal intent.
  8. Pyromaniac: A pathological fire setter.
  1. Serial arsons: Involves an offender who sets 3 or more fires, with a cooling off period before fires.
  2. Spree arsons: Involves an arsonist who sets 3 or more fire at separate loca- tions, with no emotional cooling off between fires.
  3. Mass arsons: Involves an offender who sets 3 or more fires at the same site or location during a limited period of time.
  4. Six motives for arson: Vandalism, excitement, revenge, crime concealment, profit, extremism.