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Fire fighting

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

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Fire fighting

fire hydraulics

Fire safety; Fire fighting

The study of pumps, hoses, pipes, accessories and tools for moving water or other extinguishing agents from a water supply to a fire.

hose pack

Fire safety; Fire fighting

A hose pack is a backpack containing fire hose in a preconfigured arrangement, sometime completely made from fire hose without a bag.

flammable range, limits

Fire safety; Fire fighting

The percentage mixture of fumes with air that will sustain fire; outside the limits the mixture is either too lean or too rich to burn.

lower flammable Limit (LFL)

Fire safety; Fire fighting

The lowest percentage concentration by volume of flammable vapour or gas in air which will burn with a flame under specified conditions.

apparatus

Fire safety; Fire fighting

A term usually used by firefighters describing a piece of mobile firefighting equipment, such as a pumper, a tanker, a ladder truck, etc.

contained fire

Fire safety; Fire fighting

A fire restricted to boundaries established by fire fighters.ʊ

fire-resistant

Fire safety; Fire fighting

Materials designed or treated to have an increased fire point.

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