Fire fighting

Fire fighting

The organized efforts employing methodology, personnel, and apparatus to extinguish or to confine fire.

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head pressure

Fire safety; Fire fighting

How the pressure of a water stream is measured. By measuring the 'breakover' point, the point where the water stream breaks apart and begins to fall back to the ground, of a stream of water aimed ...

ventilation

Fire safety; Fire fighting

Important procedure in firefighting in which the hot smoke and gases are removed from inside a structure, either by natural convection or forced, and either through existing openings or new ones ...

An organization of part-time firefighters who may or may not be paid for on-call time or firefighting duty time, but who in nearly all states are held to the same professional training standards and ...

master box

Fire safety; Fire fighting

A primary fire alarm relay box connected to a building alarm system which monitors fire alarm pull stations and detectors throughout the building and automatically relays any in-building alarm to the ...

rapid intervention crew (RIC)

Fire safety; Fire fighting

This is a standby crew whose purpose is to go in for the rescue of firefighters in trouble. While all of these versions of the name for a firefighter rescue crew either have been used or continue to ...

neutral plane

Fire safety; Fire fighting

The separation between the Over-Pressure region and the Under=Pressure regions developed in a compartment fire (sometimes referred to as the smoke/air interface). The neutral plane can be seen quite ...

residual pressure

Fire safety; Fire fighting

When a pumper is taking its water supply from a hydrant the engineer must make sure the pump is not taking every last bit of the pressure the hydrant is able to provide. Some residual pressure must ...