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| What are the three components of the Fire Triangle? |
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| What are the components of the fire Tetrahedron? |
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| Heat, Oxygen, Fuel, & chemical chain reaction. |
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| What is the difference between organic and inorganic substances? |
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| Organic are or once were alive. |
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| What kind of reaction is fire, Endothermic or Exothermic? |
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| Give examples of slow oxidation and rapid oxidation. |
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| __________ cannot be created or destroyed. |
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| List the four sources of heat. |
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| Chemical, mechanical, electrical, & nuclear. |
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| What source of heat does fire fall under? |
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| What is the PSI at sea level? |
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| If a gas has a Vapor Density of .8345, will it rise or sink? |
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| What does BLEVE stand for? |
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| Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion |
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| What are the three forms of matter? |
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| Rubbing two sticks together produces what source of heat? |
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| Which part of the fire triangle needs to be removed to extinguish a fire? |
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| Any of the three, Heat, Fuel, or Oxygen. |
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| What are the 4 stages that define characteristics of fire behavior? |
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| 1- Ignition Stage. 2- Growth Stage. 3- Fully Developed Stage. 4- Decay Stage |
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| What are the 3 modes of heat transfer? |
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| Conduction, Convection, and Radiation |
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| What type of heat transfer occurs when hot objects delivers heat to another object or portion of itself through contact? |
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| During what fire stage have all fuels been consumed, and fire begins to diminish? |
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| Entire contents of a compartment ignite almost simultaneously during ______? |
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| A fire burning in a closed compartment has used all the available oxygen in the compartment, slowing the combustion process and the fire. If oxygen is re-introduced to the compartment, what will occur? |
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| Class A type fires are known as? |
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| If you respond to a fire that involves liquid, gasses or grease type fuels, what is the class of this fire? |
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| When superheated gases in the thermal layering ignite causing fire to travel across the top of the compartment, this is known as a ____? |
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| What occurs when the gases produced by fire stratify into layers based on their temperatures? |
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