Fire safety

Fire safety

Fire prevention, protection and firefighting.

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search and rescue (SAR)

Fire safety; Fire fighting

Entering a fire building or collapse zone for an orderly search for victims and removal of live victims. Becomes "recovery" if victims are not likely to be found alive. May be ...

chimney fire

Fire safety; Fire fighting

Fast and intense fire in a chimney flue in which accumulated creosote and other combustion byproducts ignite. These often extend fire into the roof or attic, especially with ...

A-side

Fire safety; Fire fighting

Front of the fire building, usually front door facing street, but may be facing parking area where first apparatus arrives; other sides labeled B (left), C (rear), D (right), as ...

upper flammable limit (UFL)

Fire safety; Fire fighting

The greatest concentration of a flammable gas in air that will support ignition and continuous combustion. Limits vary with temperature and pressure, but are normally expressed in ...

vertical ventilation

Fire safety; Fire fighting

Ventilation technique making use of the principle of convection in which heated gases naturally rise. This is the classic cut-a-hole-in-the-roof method that helps release the ...

fire flow

Fire safety; Fire fighting

The amount of water being pumped onto a fire, or required to extinguish a hypothetical fire. A critical calculation in light of the axiom that an ordinary fire will not be ...

personnel accountability system

Fire safety; Fire fighting

Tag, 'passport', or other system for identification and tracking of personnel at an incident, especially those entering and leaving an IDLH area; intended to permit rapid ...