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Which of the 11 Rules of Engagement for Firefighter Survival requires firefighters to evaluate personal risk exposure and determine a safe approach for completing assigned objectives?

In which door type it is likely that the occupants use a metal rod or wooden dowel to assist in securing the door?

What is the main difference between wooden frame double-hung windows and comparable windows with vinyl frames?

You are responding to a fire scene. You exit the apparatus at the fire scene and pull an attack line off the engine. The officer connects an adaptor, and the soft sleeve hose is connected. The attack engine leaves the scene flaking out hose from the hose bed and stops at the fire hydrant. What type of hose lay has been completed?

You are new to your department and are looking over the apparatus. When you get to the preconnected attack lines you see the nozzle on top of the load with the hose layered one length on top of the next. There are a couple of loops hanging out of it at different lengths. What load is on this apparatus?

Which radio system can assign and reassign transmissions to unused frequencies?

If you think that ladders have been exposed to high heat, what should your first step be?

Which of these is the most serious type of heat stress?

How would a firefighter prevent the butt of the ladder from slipping?

A 3-A extinguisher contains the equivalent of how much water?