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Question | Answer |
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Key CERT functions include: | fire safety, medical operation, light search and rescue, disaster psychology |
What are the 3 elements fire requires to exist? | Fuel, Heat, Oxygen |
What are the steps of sizeup checklist? | Gather facts, assess and communicate the damage, consider probabilities, assess your own situation, establish priorities, make decisions, develop a plan of action, take action, evaluate progress |
What does P.A.S.S. mean? | Pull, aim, squeeze, sweep |
Where should you aim while putting out a fire? | at the base |
What does the red quadrant describe in the NFPA diamond? | flammability |
What does the blue quadrant describe in the NFPA diamond? | health hazard |
What does the yellow quadrant describe in the NFPA diamond? | reactivity |
What are the life threatening conditions? | airway obstruction, bleeding, shock |
What are 3 main methods to control bleeding? | direct pressure, elevation, pressure points |
During triage what does the tag I mean? | immediate (life threatening) |
During triage what does the tag D mean? | delayed (injuries do not jeopardize the victims) |
During triage what does the tag DEAD mean? | no respiration after two attempts to open airway |
Where should the treatment site be set up? | downwind |
What is a class A fire categorized into? | ordinary combustibles such as paper, wood, cloth, rubber, and many plastics |
What is a class B fire categorized into? | flammable liquids and combustible liquid |
What is a class C fire categorized into? | energized electrical equipment |
What is a class D fire categorized into? | combustible metal |
What is a pancake void? | floors fall on top of each other |
What is lean to void? | floor leans on the outside wall, creating a void where the floor remains attached to the wall |
What is the 'V' void? | floor collapses in the center |
What is arterial bleeding? | spurting blood |
What is venous bleeding? | flowing blood |
What is capillary bleeding? | oozing blood |
What should you have at all times? | disaster kit |