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  1. What goes hand in hand with productivity and safety?
    Physical fitness
  2. What are the 2 aspects to fitness?
    Aerobic and muscular
  3. When is the only times ff should not wear gloves?
    When feeling for hotspots while mop up
  4. When can you remove a hood or shroud?
    Only during breaks
  5. How fast you be able to pull your fire shelter
    25 seconds or less
  6. What did the 10 standard firefighting orders a dress
    Safety issues that are not meant to be compromised
  7. Can you violate the 10  Standard orders orders
    No
  8. What are the 3 most standard reasons we violate 10 standard firefighting orders
    • Ignorance 
    • Machismo
    • Apathy
  9. What are the 3 primary weather factors that impact of fire
    • Temperature 
    • Relative humidity 
    • Wind
  10. What is your 1st line of protection
    Safety zones in the raps to them
  11. At what slope will fire burning up Hill move  Twice  As fast
    30% will double again at 55%
  12. What are the key elements to survival
    Laces look out awareness communication escape route and safety zones
  13. What distant should you give when working around snags
    50% uphill 150% downhill
  14. What is one of the biggest killers of wild land fire fighters
    Snags
  15. How far away should you stay from downed power lines
    100'
  16. 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
  17. What are 3 things that are constantly changing during wild land firefighting
    • Time of day weather
    • location of fire
  18. What are 4 things that will hinder situational awareness
    • InExperience
    • stress
    • fatigue
    • attitude
  19. What's the best way to learn from one's actions
    An after action fire review
  20. What is the primary driving force behind the changes of fire behavior
    Whether
  21. What are the weather factors that can affect the start and spread a whildland fires
    • Wind
    • relative humidity temperature
    • precipitation
  22. What is the layer of the atmosphere closest to the ground
    Troposphere
  23. What are the 2 most important components of the atmosphere
    Oxygen and water vapor
  24. What is the primary source of weather
    Increased surface temperatures
  25. What is the hottest time of the day
    Between 2 and 4
  26. What are general winds
    There fact large areas. winds that are reported in daily weather forecasts
  27. What are local winds
    Winds that are produced by the local terrain
  28. What are surface winds
    Winds that are normally measured at 20' above the ground
  29. 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
  30. What is wins be determined by I'm talking into this thing
    The pressure gradient
  31. What is when direction determined by
    Relationship of the highest to the lows
  32. At what percent relative humidity will fires burn freely
    30%
  33. At what percent relative humidity is the fire danger critical?
    10% or below
  34. For every what percent temperature will the relative humidity drop by half?
    20 degrees and vice versa
  35. Unstable air can testify fire behavior by doing what
    Increasing
  36. 45% of large fires occurred when they Haynes index was at what
    6
  37. What is the Haynes index
    The measure of air stability
  38. When do inversion layers usually weakan
    After sunrise when the Sun begins to warm the Earth's surface
  39. What is the thermal belt
    An area of a mountain s**** where a night time inversion layer bays it with warmer and drier air
  40. Will fire burn more intense inside of a thermal belt
    Yes
  41. How fast can thunderstorms be
    As much as 60 mph
  42. What is aspect
    To direction a s**** is facing
  43. 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
  44. At what percent s**** will fire double in rate
    30% and then on a 55% it will double again
  45. What affects the length of the fire season
    Elevation
  46. At what degree with oxygen will fire be produced
    500ﾟ
  47. What type of heat transfer plays the biggest role in while and fire spread
    Convection
  48. What do WILDLAND fuels range from?
    1 to 3 t per acre in grass to / 200 t per acre in timber
  49. What are watch out
    Not orders their intended to teach the proper recognition of situations that are dangerous
  50. What are human performance factors that lead to injury
    • Ignorance
    • attitude
    • apathy
  51. What are the 3 step to situational awareness
    Perception comprehension projection
  52. What are the 4 levels of  Human error
    • Organizational influences
    • unsave supervision precondition for unsafe acts
    • unsafe acts
  53. 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
  54. 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
  55. As a rule from how many engine should you assign for structure
    One engine for structure and 1 additional engine for every for
  56. Wjat is one I'd the first actions that should be taken in organizing a wildfire?
    Divide into divisions and or groups
  57. Where are the primary service and support activities performed?
    The incident base
  58. Should unworthy about big or small fires first?
    Small..u dont want small fires turning into bigger ones.
  59. Hiw should fires on both sides of a drainage be treated?
    As two separate fires
  60. What is the most important phases of fire suppression
    Mop up
  61. At what flame length can a fire be attacked at the head or flanks using hand tools?
    Less than 4 feet
  62. What flame lengths can fires not be directly fought w hand tools. Use bulldozers engines retardant drops
    4 to 8 feet
  63. Wjat flame lengths can torching crowning and spotting happen?
    8 to 11 feet
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