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5 firefighter guidelines - ANSWER- Be safe, follow orders, work as a team, think, follow the golden rule NFPA 1001 - ANSWER- training and performance qualifications for firefighters Fire apparatus operator - ANSWER- responsible for getting apparatus to scene safely as well as setting up and running the pump or operating aerial ladder company officer - ANSWER- leads the company both on the scene and station safety officer - ANSWER- watches overall operation for unsafe practices training officer - ANSWER- responsible for updating the training of ff incident commander - ANSWER- responsible for the management of all incident operations fire marshal/inspector/investigator - ANSWER- inspects business and enforces public safety laws and fire codes. can also help investigate cause of fire fire and life safety education specialist - ANSWER- educates public about fire safety and injury prevention 911 dispatcher/telecommunicator - ANSWER- takes calls from public and dispatches appropriate units to an emergency Fire police - ANSWER- control traffic and secure scene from public information management personnel - ANSWER- take care of ff computer network system fire protection engineer - ANSWER- reviews plans and works with building owners to ensure that detection systems meet the applicable codes technical rescue technician - ANSWER- trained in special rescue techniques for incidents involving structural collapse, trench rescue, swift water rescue, confined space rescue, high angle rescue unified command system - ANSWER- establishes a single set of incident goals under a single leader and ensures mutual communication operation governance - ANSWER- organisation exercises authority and performs functions assigned to it regulations - ANSWER- developed by governmental bodies to implement a law policies - ANSWER- developed to provide definitive guidelines for present and future actions engine company - ANSWER- responsible for securing water source, deploying landlines, conducting search and rescue, and putting water on fire truck company - ANSWER- responsible for forcible entry, ventilation, roof operations, search and rescue, and ground ladder deployment rescue company - ANSWER- responsible for rescuing victims from fires, confined spaces, trenches, and high angle situations Chain of command (lowest to highest) - ANSWER- firefighter, lieutenant, captain, battalion chief, assistant or division chief, chief of department four basic management principles - ANSWER- discipline, division of labor, unity of command, span of control Advanced emergency medical technician - ANSWER- ems who can perform limited procedures that include iv therapy, interpretation of cardiac rhythms, defribillation, and airway intubation. falls between emt basic and emt paramedic assistant or division chief - ANSWER- midlevel chief who has functional area of responsibility banked - ANSWER- covering a fire to ensure low burning battalion chief - ANSWER- first level of fire chief, charged of running calls and supervising multiple stations or districts within a city captain - ANSWER- second rank in fire service, responsible for managing a fire company and coordinating activities chief's trumpet - ANSWER- old device given to chiefs to give orders during calls consensus document - ANSWER- code document developed through agreement between people. NFPA is an example emergency medical services company - ANSWER- company made up of medical units and first response vehicles emergency medical services personnel - ANSWER- personnel who are responsible for administering prehospital care, cross trained as ff emergency medical technicians - ANSWER- have training in basic emergency care skills fire hook - ANSWER- tool used to pull down burning structures fireplug - ANSWER- valve installed to control water accessed from wooden pipes Incident command system - ANSWER- combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications operating within a common organisational structure that has responsibility for assigned resources to effectively accomplish stated objectives pertaining to indecent or training exercise lieutenant - ANSWER- company officer in charge of a single fire company on a single shift span of control - ANSWER- maximum number of personnel or activities that can be controlled by one individual (3 to 7). 5 is best unity of command - ANSWER- each person within an organisation reports to one and only one designated perso
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