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Essentials of Fire Fighting Edition 7 Chapter 9 Forcible Entry with correct answers
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Halligan Tool - correct answer ✔✔Prying tool with a claw at one end and a spike or point at a right angle to a wedge at the other end. Adz - correct answer ✔✔A wedge-shaped blade attached at right angles to the handle of the tool. When would you want to avoid using a power saw? - correct answer ✔✔When you're in a flammable atmosphere. Hux Bar - correct answer ✔✔A multipurpose tool that can be used for several forcible entry and ventilation applications because of its unique design. It may also be used as a hydrant wrench. Battering Ram - correct answer ✔✔Solid steel bar with handles and guards a fork on one end, and a blunt end on the other, used to break down doors or create holes in walls. The tool weighs 30 to 40 pounds (13.6 to 18.1 kg) and can be operated by one or more firefighters. Pike Pole - correct answer ✔✔Sharp prong and hook of steel, on a wood, metal, fiberglass, or plastic handle of varying length, used for pulling, dragging, and probing. A-Tool - correct answer ✔✔Prying tool with a sharp notch resembling the letter A. The notch has cutting edges machined into it. Forcible Entry - correct answer ✔✔Techniques used by fire personnel to gain entry into buildings, vehicles, aircraft, or other areas of confinement when normal means of entry are locked or blocked. J-Tool - correct answer ✔✔Device made of rigid, heavy gauge wire designed to fit through the space between double swinging doors equipped with panic hardware. K-Tool - correct answer ✔✔V-blade tool that is designed to pull lock cylinders from a door with only minimal damage to the door itself. Lever - correct answer ✔✔Device consisting of a bar pivoting on a fixed point (fulcrum), using power or force applied at a second point to lift or sustain an object at a third point.
What is the easiest way to breach modern deadbolts in a wood residential door? - correct answer ✔✔Force the door itself When forcing entry into a structure what should you always be aware of? - correct answer ✔✔You must be coordinated with whatever interior activities require entry Shove Knife - correct answer ✔✔can provide access to outward swinging latch-type doors. How far are studs apart in a structure? - correct answer ✔✔16, 20, and sometimes 24 inchss What set of tools are called the "irons" - correct answer ✔✔Flathead axe and a halligan Who determines where should forcible entry be used? - correct answer ✔✔Incident Commander (IC) What are the four basic forcible entry tool categories? - correct answer ✔✔Cutting Pushing/Pulling Prying Striking tools Security barriers such as bars, grilles, and Lexan windows require what? - correct answer ✔✔Specialized training and tools to force Which tool would best be suited for forcing a metal -clad inward-swinging door in a masonry wall? - correct answer ✔✔Halligan Tool Double swinging doors can be opened by? - correct answer ✔✔Pried apart using a ram bar or halligan Which location would likely be protected by a fire door? - correct answer ✔✔The entrance to an office exit stairwell
One problem with breaching interior and exterior walls is that? - correct answer ✔✔They may conceal electrical wires and gas pipes