| Question | Answer |
| Distinctive metal marker once produced by insurance companies for identifying their policyholders buildings | Fire Mark |
| Refers to the joint consideration of the life and physical well being of individuals both civilian and firefighters | Life Safety |
| Activities involved in responding to the scene of an incident and performing assigned duties in order to mitigate the emergency | Emergency Operations |
| 1)Orders of rank and authority in the fire service. 2) The proper sequence on information and command flow as described in the Incident Command System | Chain of Command |
| Means you only report to one supervisor | Unity of Command |
| Means that any officer can effectively supervise or manage only a certain number of individuals or groups | Span of Control |
| Setting the limits or boundaries for expected performance and enforcing them | Discipline |
| Deploys hoselines for fire attack and exposure protection | Engine Company |
| Performs forcible entry, search and rescue, ventilation,salvage and overhaul, and utilities control and provides access to upper levels of a structure | Truck (ladder) Company |
| Searches for and removes victims from areas of danger or entrapment and may perform technical rescues | Rescue Squad/Company |
| Extingushes wildland fires and protects structures in the wildland/urban interface | Brush Company |
| Responds to and mitigates hazardous materials incidents | Hazardous materials Company |
| Provides emergency medical care to patients (may provide transportation to a medical facility. | Emergency Medical/Ambulance Company |
| Responds to and performs technical rescues | Special Rescue Company |
| Drives assigned fire apparatus to and from fires and other emergencies;operates pumps,aerial devices, or other mechanical equipment as requried | Fire Apparatus driver/operator |
| Fulfills any of the following responsibilities depending upon the size and structure of the fire dept | Fire Dept Officer |
| Oversees a fire depts occupational safety and health program | Fire Dept Health and Safety Officer |
| Monitors operational safety during emergency incidents | Fire Dept Incident Safety Officer |
| Receive emergency and nonemergency phone calls, process the information,dispatch units,establish and maintain a communications link to in service companies, and complete incident reports | Communications Personnel(Telecommunicators) |
| Maintain municipal fire alarm systems | Fire Alarm maintenance Personnel |
| Maintain all fire dept apparatus and protable equipment | Apparatus and equipment maintenance personnel |
| Assist law enforcement officers with trafic control, crowd control, and scene security at fires and other emergency operations | Fire police personnel |
| Manage the collection, entry, storage, retrevial, and dissemination of electronic databases such as fire reporting | Information Systems personnel |
| Resources currently committed to an assignment | Assigned |
| Resources that have checked in at the incident and are not currently assigned | Available |
| The organizational level between Divisions/Groups and the IC and Operations | Branch |
| The finction of directing, ordering, and controlling resources by virtue of explicit legal,agency, or delegated authority | Command |
| Location from which all operations are directed | Command Post |
| A Geographic designation assigning responsibility for all operations within a defined area | Division |
| Functional designations (forcible entry, salvage, ventilation etc) | Group |
| The written or unwritten plan for managing the emergency | Incident Action Plan |
| The officer at the top of the incident chain of command who is in overall chargeof the incident- ultimately responsible for everything that takes place at the emergency scene | Incident Commander |
| Resources not available for assignment | Out-of-service |
| All personnel and makor pieces of apparatus on scene or en route and on which status is maintained | Resources |
| Resources assigned to a particular incident and are in one of 3 modes - available, asigned, or out-of-service | Resource Status |
| Individual personnel and equipment items and the operators assigned with them | Single Resource |
| Set number or resources of the same kind and type with an established minimum number of personnel | Strike Team |
| Determines the positions for companies operating on scene. devided into two basic modes | Strategic Mode: Offensive or Defensive |
| Someone in command of a division or a group | Supervisor |
| Any combination of resources assembled in support of a specific mission or operational need | Task Force |
| Four categories of fire depts | 1-Volunteer 2- Paid on call 3- Career 4- Combination |
| Mission of the fire service | "Save lives and protect property" |
| Major subdivisions within the ICS structure | 1-Command 2-Operations 3-Planning 4-Logistics 5-Finance/Admin 6-Information/Intelligence |
| Fire Prevention Personnel | 1-Fire Prevention Officer/Inspector 2-Fire and Arson investigator 3-Public fire and life safety educator 4-Fire protection engineer/specialist |
| Special Operations Personnel | 1-Airport Firefighter 2-Hazardous Materials Tech 3-Technical Rescuer 4-Wildland Firefighter |
| Guide to decision making in an organization | Policy |
| A written communication closely related to a policy | Procedure |
| Predetermined plan for nearly every situation both emergency and nonemergency | Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) |
| Used to implement departmental policies and procedures eithe written or verbal and is based on ploicy and procedure Compliance is mandatory | Order |
| Not based on policy, more in nature of a request or suggestion | Directive |
