Vehicle Extrication and Special Rescue

Maintain ___ clearance around side-impact airbags that have not deployed.

Maintain ___ clearance around driver airbags that have not deployed.

Maintain ___ clearance around passenger airbags that have not deployed.

Removal of a pt. from entrapment or a dangerous situation or position, such as removal from a wrecked vehicle, industrial accident, or building collapse.

The be caught (trapped) within a vehicle, room, or other confined space  no way out, or to have a limb or other body part trapped.

The ongoing process of information gathering and scene evaluation to determine appropriate strategies and tactics to manage an emergency.

The ability to gain entry to an enclosed area and reach a pt.

An area of protection providing safety from the danger zone.

An area where people can be exposed to sharp metal edges, broken glass, toxic substances, lethal rays, or ignition or explosion of hazardous materials.

Any substance that is toxic, poisonous, radioactive, flammable, or explosive and causes death  exposure.

Respirator  independent air supply used by fire fighters to enter toxic and otherwise dangerous atmospheres.

Access that is easily achieved  the use of tools or force.

Complicated entry that requires special tools and training and includes breaking windows or using other force.

A rescue that requires special technical skills and equipment in one of many specialized rescue areas.

A team of people from one or more departments in a region that is trained and on call for certain types of technical rescue.

The person who has overall command of the scene in the field.

A type of rescue involving a cave-in or collapse.

How far should you park the ambulance when responding to a trench rescue?

What is the primary cause of a secondary collapse at a trench rescue scene?

Never enter a trench deeper than ___  proper shoring.

A hostage, robbery, or other situation in which armed conflict is threatened or shots have been fired and the threat of violence remains.

A fire in a house, apartment building, office, school, plant warehouse, or other building.