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Fire fighting
The organized efforts employing methodology, personnel, and apparatus to extinguish or to confine fire.
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ten standard firefighting orders
Fire safety; Fire fighting
A set of orders designed to be systematically implemented by wildland firefighters to prevent their being trapped by a wildfire.
air-track
Fire safety; Fire fighting
The route by which the air enters the structure to the fire and the subsequent path the heated smoke takes to exit the structure.
reflash watch
Fire safety; Fire fighting
A person assigned to observe and monitor an extinguished fire, to ensure that it does not reflash or re-kindle. Aka "Fire Watch."
life line
Fire safety; Fire fighting
A trademark for a wireless emergency call unit that triggers a telephone call to an emergency dispatcher when a button is pressed.
United States Fire Administration (USFA)
Fire safety; Fire fighting
Division of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which in turn is managed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Class D
Fire safety; Fire fighting
A fire involving metals, such as sodium, titanium, magnesium, potassium, uranium, lithium, plutonium and calcium.
drills
Fire safety; Fire fighting
Training during which an emergency is simulated and the trainees go through the steps of responding as if it were a real emergency.
