Fire fighting

Fire fighting

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

Contributors in Fire fighting

Fire fighting

A drill that essentially re-creates the rescue of Denver firefighter Mark Langvardt. It incorporates the use of a leveraged body and an inclined plane (bio-mechanics) to get a victim up and out of a ...

fire barn

Fire safety; Fire fighting

Another term for Fire station. Originally it referred to a stable which housed horses and the fire apparatus which they hauled. Although it may be colloquially employed to describe any such ...

multiple alarms

Fire safety; Fire fighting

A request by an incident commander for additional personnel and apparatus. Each additional alarm (level) typically includes a predetermined set of additional apparatus and personnel, which will vary ...

type I, II, III, IV, V building

Fire safety; Fire fighting

U.S. classification system for fire resistance of building construction types, including definitions for "resistive" Type I, "non-combustible" Type II, "ordinary" Type III, heavy timber Type IV, and ...

engineer

Fire safety; Fire fighting

A firefighter responsible for driving the engine to the scene of the call and operation of the pumps on an engine, to provide sufficient water to the firefighters on the hose. The term may be either ...

evolution

Fire safety; Fire fighting

Uniform sequence of practiced steps by squad carrying out common tasks such as selection and placement of ladders, stowing hoses in hose bed, putting hoses and tools into service in particular ...

available flow

Fire safety; Fire fighting

Total amount of water that can be put on a fire, depending upon water supply, pump size, hoses, and distance to the fire. Incident Commander must assess available flow to determine whether additional ...