DO YOU KNOW HOW TO COORDINATE DOOR FORCIBLE ENTRY AND WINDOW VENTING?
IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO COORDINATE DOOR FORCIBLE ENTRY AND WINDOW VENTING, YOU SHOULD READ QUESTION # 9.
1. True or False
The fire service can divide venting tactics into two eras: the era before the 2010 Underwriters Laboratory tests called, “Impact of Ventilation on Fire Behavior in Legacy and Contemporary Residential Construction,” and the era after this Underwriters test
Ans. True
2. Which of the following is an incorrect statement regarding venting?
A. “BULT 10” means before Underwriters laboratory test of 2010
B. “AULT 10” means after Underwriters laboratory test of 2010
C. Thanks to the underwriter’s laboratory tests we now have scientific evidence of good and bad effects of firefighter venting windows and doors
D. The fire service did not know about good and bad venting before this scientific evidence of venting
Ans. D
3. Which of the following is incorrect regarding venting?
A. Scientific testing allows us to more accurately predict what happens in a burning room when firefighters open doors and windows to vent
B. Venting is still defined as the planned, systematic removal of smoke, heat and fire gases from a burning building
C. Three new conditions added to venting tactics are: communicating, controlling, and coordinating
D. Each firefighter is responsible to control and coordinate venting
Ans. D
4. Which is an incorrect statement regarding venting?
A. There can be no freelance venting at fires
B. We have scientific documentation of what fire service veterans already knew
C. Opening portals to a fire area introduces fresh air and decreases fire growth
D. Open doors are vent portal that introduces fresh air to a fire
Ans. C
5. Which is an incorrect statement regarding venting?
A. When rollover flame comes out of the top portion of an open door or window opening, fresh air also flow out of the bottom portion of the opening
B. Air supply is the most important of all factors increasing combustion rate
C. Open portals increase combustion rate
D. Closing portals slows down combustion rate
Ans. A
6. Which is an incorrect statement regarding venting?
A. Firefighters assigned outside venting now have radios and must communicate after they have vented
B. Communication is important because venting be coordinated with forcible entry operations and the hose team line advance or fire will grow
C. Coordination between venting and hoseline advance was a factor in the NYC Watts Street fatal fire
D. Venting too soon can trap searching firefighters, spread fire and trigger flashover or explosion
Ans. A
7. Which is an incorrect statement regarding venting?
A. Fire departments now have to identify who is responsible to control venting at a fire
B. Vent control officer may be the first officer to arrive, tour commander, ladder company officer or overall incident commander
C. In well trained fire departments, the vent officer is decided back in the fire house before a fire
D. Control, communication and coordination of venting is not accomplished by fire training and preplanning
Ans. D
8. Which is an incorrect statement regarding venting?
A. Communication, control, and coordination of window venting established by ULT 10 is not a new concept in the fire service
B. This was always a veteran firefighters’ vent tactic
C. This venting procedure is not new; only the terminology is new
D. The door to the fire area is not as important a vent portal as a window
Ans. D
9. Which is an incorrect statement regarding venting when there is no trapped victim?
A. Open and close door to a fire area after force entry to release heat and give time for a hose team to get ready
B. The door to a fire area must be controlled at a serious fire
C. When the door has been left open and heavy fire is coming out the doorway a firefighter crouching down with a gloved hand grabs the door handle and closes the door or uses a pike pole to pull the door closed to stop uncontrolled venting
D. When hose team is ready to advance entrance door is reopened and the notification is given to the outside vent firefighter to start window venting
Ans. A
10. Which is an incorrect statement regarding venting?
A. When no trapped victims, duties of outside venting firefighter are to locate a window or windows and vent them to assist the inside search and advancement of the initial attack hose line
B. When firefighters advance with a hose stream water under pressure from a solid bore nozzle pushes some smoke and heat and steam ahead out the venting windows
C. fog nozzles push greater volumes of smoke and heat out a vented window and windows must be vented or firefighters may be burned
D. When possible, windows vented should be on same side of the room from where the interior forces are advancing
Ans. D