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What goes hand in hand with productivity and safety?

Physical fitness
What are the 2 aspects to fitness?

Aerobic and muscular
When is the only times ff should not wear gloves?

When feeling for hotspots while mop up
When can you remove a hood or shroud?

Only during breaks
How fast you be able to pull your fire shelter

25 seconds or less
What did the 10 standard firefighting orders a dress

Safety issues that are not meant to be compromised
Can you violate the 10 Standard orders orders

No
What are the 3 most standard reasons we violate 10 standard firefighting orders
- Ignorance
- Machismo
- Apathy
What are the 3 primary weather factors that impact of fire
- Temperature
- Relative humidity
- Wind
What is your 1st line of protection

Safety zones in the raps to them
At what slope will fire burning up Hill move Twice As fast

30% will double again at 55%
What are the key elements to survival

Laces look out awareness communication escape route and safety zones
What distant should you give when working around snags

50% uphill 150% downhill
What is one of the biggest killers of wild land fire fighters

Snags
How far away should you stay from downed power lines

100'
What is situational awareness?

Gathering of information by observation ir having it reported to you. It is on the basis of this information that you will make decisions
What are 3 things that are constantly changing during wild land firefighting
- Time of day weather
- location of fire
What are 4 things that will hinder situational awareness
- InExperience
- stress
- fatigue
- attitude
What's the best way to learn from one's actions

An after action fire review
What is the primary driving force behind the changes of fire behavior

Whether
What are the weather factors that can affect the start and spread a whildland fires
- Wind
- relative humidity temperature
- precipitation
What is the layer of the atmosphere closest to the ground

Troposphere
What are the 2 most important components of the atmosphere

Oxygen and water vapor
What is the primary source of weather

Increased surface temperatures
What is the hottest time of the day

Between 2 and 4
What are general winds

There fact large areas. winds that are reported in daily weather forecasts
What are local winds

Winds that are produced by the local terrain
What are surface winds

Winds that are normally measured at 20' above the ground
What are mid flame winds

Wins that occur at the midpoint of flame height and have the greatest effect on the direction of fire will burn
What is wins be determined by I'm talking into this thing

The pressure gradient
What is when direction determined by

Relationship of the highest to the lows
At what percent relative humidity will fires burn freely

30%
At what percent relative humidity is the fire danger critical?

10% or below
For every what percent temperature will the relative humidity drop by half?

20 degrees and vice versa
Unstable air can testify fire behavior by doing what

Increasing
45% of large fires occurred when they Haynes index was at what

6
What is the Haynes index

The measure of air stability
When do inversion layers usually weakan

After sunrise when the Sun begins to warm the Earth's surface
What is the thermal belt

An area of a mountain s**** where a night time inversion layer bays it with warmer and drier air
Will fire burn more intense inside of a thermal belt

Yes
How fast can thunderstorms be

As much as 60 mph
What is aspect

To direction a s**** is facing
What a s**** reversal

When a fire Burns to a point where the s**** changes such as at the top of a ridge or the bottom of a Canyon
At what percent s**** will fire double in rate

30% and then on a 55% it will double again
What affects the length of the fire season

Elevation
At what degree with oxygen will fire be produced

500ﾟ
What type of heat transfer plays the biggest role in while and fire spread

Convection
What do WILDLAND fuels range from?

1 to 3 t per acre in grass to / 200 t per acre in timber
What are watch out

Not orders their intended to teach the proper recognition of situations that are dangerous
What are human performance factors that lead to injury
- Ignorance
- attitude
- apathy
What are the 3 step to situational awareness

Perception comprehension projection
What are the 4 levels of Human error
- Organizational influences
- unsave supervision precondition for unsafe acts
- unsafe acts
What are your primary considerations as you arrive at the fire scene
- Firefighter safety life threat
- potential fire behavior
- access
- nature of the threat of structures
- water supply
What percentage of structures that are lost to an advancing wildland fire are lost because of a lack of adequate clearance from Flammable Feels

90 Percent
As a rule from how many engine should you assign for structure

One engine for structure and 1 additional engine for every for
Wjat is one I'd the first actions that should be taken in organizing a wildfire?

Divide into divisions and or groups
Where are the primary service and support activities performed?

The incident base
Should unworthy about big or small fires first?

Small..u dont want small fires turning into bigger ones.
Hiw should fires on both sides of a drainage be treated?

As two separate fires
What is the most important phases of fire suppression

Mop up
At what flame length can a fire be attacked at the head or flanks using hand tools?

Less than 4 feet
What flame lengths can fires not be directly fought w hand tools. Use bulldozers engines retardant drops

4 to 8 feet
Wjat flame lengths can torching crowning and spotting happen?

8 to 11 feet

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2019-10-11T17:57:28Z