This document contains 30 multiple choice questions about firefighting equipment, procedures, and classifications of fires. It covers topics like fire hose use and maintenance, fire extinguisher types and inspection, ladder safety, fire apparatus, personal protective equipment, rescue tools, and cutting tools. The questions test knowledge of hoses, ladders, extinguishers, vehicle extrications, fire behavior, and command operations.
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Tools and Equipments and Apparatus
This document contains 30 multiple choice questions about firefighting equipment, procedures, and classifications of fires. It covers topics like fire hose use and maintenance, fire extinguisher types and inspection, ladder safety, fire apparatus, personal protective equipment, rescue tools, and cutting tools. The questions test knowledge of hoses, ladders, extinguishers, vehicle extrications, fire behavior, and command operations.
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1. What is the designation for fires involving 10.
A device used to tighten or loosen hose
cooking oils or fats? couplings, but this versatile tool can also be a. Class B used to close utility cocks, pry and hammer. b. Class C a. Hose Monkey Wrench c. Class K b. Pipe Wrench d. Class A c. Hose Spanner Wrench d. Adjustable Spanner Wrench 2. What is a "charged hose"? a. An extension used to lengthen a fire line. 11. What is the designation for fires involving b. A damaged or leaking fire hose. ordinary combustibles? c. A pressurized fire hose ready for use. a. Class K d. A hose that is connected to a fire hydrant. b. Class C c. Class B 3. Before loading hose back on the truck after d. Class A use, it should be ______. a. Rolled 12. When using a chain saw to cut a ventilation b. Washed hole, a firefighter should use the _________ of c. Tested the chain and when cutting trees a firefighter d. Numbered should use the _________ of the chain. a. Tip; back 4. On fire extinguishers, which symbol represents b. Back; back combustible metals or class D fuels? c. Tip; tip a. Star d. Back; tip b. Square c. Triangle 13. What is the primary purpose for the "Hurst d. Circle tool"? a. Used as a stretcher to removed injured persons. 5. It is a type of flexible tube used by firefighters b. Rescue extrication tool to carry water under pressure from the source c. Use to cut holes into the roof of a burning of supply to a point where it is discharged. building. a. Nozzle d. Blocks used to secure parked fire vehicles. b. Fire hose c. Hydrant 14. A hose's burst pressure must be at least d. Squirt ______ times the specified service test pressure. 6. A first aid equipment used to mechanically a. 3 supply a certain amount of oxygen to a victim b. 5 who needs oxygen inhalation. c. 2 a. Artificial Respirator d. 4 b. Pulse Oxymeter 15. It is the vehicle where the fire chief usually c. Oxygen Inhalator ride and use as command post during the d. Semiautomatic Defibrillator firefighting operation. It is equipped with radio and other command equipment. 7. In fire extinguisher usage, what does the a. Water Tanker mnemonic PASS mean? b. Command Service Vehicle a. Pull, adjust, set, solve c. Fire Engine b. Push, arm, sweep, settle d. Chemical Truck c. Prepare, align, shoot, safely d. Pull, aim, squeeze, sweep 16. Reciprocating saws are generally used by firefighters for... 8. A device used to seal small cuts or breaks, a. Structural collapse which may occur in fire hose, or to connect b. Ventilation mismatched or damaged coupling of the same c. Vehicle and machinery extrications size. d. All of these a. Hose Jacket e. None of these b. Duct tape c. Hose Clamp 17. In responding to a call of "a person or persons d. None of the above stuck in an elevator", which type of firefighting apparatus would be best suited to handle this 9. The top end of the ladder is the... type of service request? a. Halyard a. A battalion chief response vehicle. b. Tip b. An emergency medical service ambulance. c. But c. A fire extinguisher. d. Fly d. A fire truck. 18. Aluminum oxide abrasive blades are generally 26. A kind of firefighting apparatus designed to used to cut which material? use diverse water supply sources as hydrants. a. Concrete, brick, mortar, etc It is usually equipped with a water tank and a b. Lexan, Plexiglass, light gauge metal centrifugal pump. c. Heaving gauge metals a. Command Service Vehicle d. Steel, concrete, and wood b. Water Tanker c. Chemical Truck 19. The most common way to secure a ladder is d. Fire Engine for the firefighter at the base to ______ the ladder. 27. refers to the proper clothing and equipment to a. Hitch provide a firefighter protection on hostile b. Tie off environments where they perform their c. Foot duties. d. Hold a. Force Protection Equipment b. Fire Protective Gear 20. This firefighting apparatus is designed mainly c. Personal Protective Equipment for firefighting high-rise fires and can be used d. None of the above to rescue trapped people as well as to shoot water at high locations. 28. What is the designation for fires involving a. Boom truck electrical or potentially energized electrical b. Aerial ladder equipment? c. Rescue truck a. Class K d. None of the above b. Class D c. Class C 21. Cutting, striking, pushing, pulling, and prying are d. Class B all examples of... a. Various tasks tools can accomplish on the 29. At what frequency should dry-chemical fire fireground. extinguishers be hydrostically tested? b. Methods tools use to accomplish work on the a. 2 years fireground. b. Annually c. Examples of types of tools used on the c. 12 years fireground. d. 5 years d. Methods and ways tools are used on the fireground. 30. Silicon carbide blades are generally used to cut which material? 22. A pick-head axe has how many cutting bits? a. Heaving gauge metals a. 4 b. Steel, concrete, and wood b. 2 c. Lexan, Plexiglass, light gauge metal c. 3 d. Concrete, brick, mortar, etc d. 1
23. Before setting up ladders, always check for...
a. Ladder length b. Inspection label c. Overhead wires d. Heat sensors
24. Cuts thin steel plates such as in vehicular or
heavy metal plates by the motive of power of compressed air in non-rotating method. a. Acetylene Cutter b. Oxygen Cutter c. Air Chisel d. Air Saw
25. A device over which rope or hose may be
pulled to raise or lower equipment when firefighters are operating in buildings above the ground level. a. Expansion Nozzles b. Hose Hoist c. Fire Hose d. Line Proportioner