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NFPA 1670 - Correct Answer ✔✔Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents (TEAM) Technician Level of Rope Rescue May be able to? - Correct Answer ✔✔- Tend to litter
Tower Hazards - Correct Answer ✔✔RF and microwave sources, induced current Induced current can cause ____ - Correct Answer ✔✔Biological effects Who regulates the electrical towers? - Correct Answer ✔✔FCC (Federal Communications Commission) What is LOTO - Correct Answer ✔✔Lockout/Tagout What is ZMS - Correct Answer ✔✔zero mechanical state What OSHA regulation provides guidance on how to disable machinery? - Correct Answer ✔✔OSHA 1910. What percent of respondents identified participating in some type of outdoor activity? - Correct Answer ✔✔50.7% How many mountaineering accidents occurred annually on average between 1990 and 2017? - Correct Answer ✔✔ 144 What is the Fall Protection Equation? - Correct Answer ✔✔Fall protection = (Length of Fall)/(Length of Fall Arrest System) What are some things a rescuer should do to promote an environment? - Correct Answer ✔✔Safety, calm, empowerment, connection, hope What is a way to promote empowerment with a victim? - Correct Answer ✔✔Assign them a task What shoukd rescuers always be prepared for? - Correct Answer ✔✔Victims who do not react well How quick Can suspension trauma occur? - Correct Answer ✔✔5 minutes What is a way to prevent suspension trauma? - Correct Answer ✔✔Choose the right harness Class E (electrical) helmets protect what? - Correct Answer ✔✔The head How do safety/belay lines aid in fall protection? - Correct Answer ✔✔Backup How do travel restrict systems aid in fall protection? - Correct Answer ✔✔Keep you Away from the edge How do fall arrest systems aid in fall protection? - Correct Answer ✔✔Keep you from hitting the ground What are some examples of passive protection systems? - Correct Answer ✔✔Fencing, signage, nets What are the four phases of rescue? - Correct Answer ✔✔Rescue preparedness, emergency response, tactical operations, termination What is the victim survivability profile? - Correct Answer ✔✔To determine the likelihood that the victim will survive
What decide should you NOT use to free a jammed descent control device? - Correct Answer ✔✔Knife What is a changeover? - Correct Answer ✔✔Process of changing from ascending to rappelling or vice versa What is important in ascending systems? - Correct Answer ✔✔Having two or more points of contact with the rope. (Full body harness preferred) What is top down rescue? - Correct Answer ✔✔Rescue system rigged above the rescue point What is a guiding line system? - Correct Answer ✔✔Traditional lowering system with a variable tensioned line What is a tracking line system? - Correct Answer ✔✔Similar to guiding line system but has MA on the bottom side Ground based rescue - Correct Answer ✔✔Operates from the ground using minimal equipment How many descent control devices are at the bottom of skate blocks? - Correct Answer ✔✔ 2 Disadvantage of ground-based vs top down rescue? - Correct Answer ✔✔Longer ropes are needed What is a pickoff rescue? - Correct Answer ✔✔When a victim is removed from a hazardous situation by transferring the victims weight to a rescue system and moving them to a safe location Potential pickoff scenarios? - Correct Answer ✔✔Hikers, rock climbers, window cleaners Typical Pickoff equipment? - Correct Answer ✔✔AZTEK kit, pickoff strap, CMC clutch, Petzl I'D, brake bar rack Who determines the type of pickoff equipment? - Correct Answer ✔✔AHJ (Authority having jurisdiction) What is a rappel pickoff situation? - Correct Answer ✔✔Victim is uninjured or has minor injury Where do you put victims pickoff systems on you? (The rescuer) - Correct Answer ✔✔Tri link How many personnel are required for rappel pickoffs? - Correct Answer ✔✔ 2 minimum How many personnel are required for lowering pickoffs? - Correct Answer ✔✔ 3 minimum What victim conditions do you do rappel pickoffs? - Correct Answer ✔✔Minor or no injuries
What victim conditions do you use lowering pickoffs? - Correct Answer ✔✔Potentially severe injuries What is a type of pre manufactured harness? - Correct Answer ✔✔Lifesaver victim harness What is a messenger line? - Correct Answer ✔✔Initial rope sent across the span to the far side (span = distance between two anchor points) Litter and carriage system is also called what? - Correct Answer ✔✔Litter trolley, it moves the litter on the high line system When rescue personnel construct a sloping highline, they should consider ___? - Correct Answer ✔✔Where the load will land What are some types of tripod systems? - Correct Answer ✔✔Arizona Vortex, SKED- EVAC, TerrAdaptor What are some reasons Kootenay Pulleys are used? - Correct Answer ✔✔1. Trolley systems