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Abandonment - correct answer Leaving a Pt who is known to be in life threatening condition. Includes starting treatment and then letting someone w/ less training take over resulting in further injury or decline of pt. ADA - correct answer American with Disabilities Act ALS - correct answer Advanced Life Support AFIS - correct answer Automated Fingerprint Identification System Aggravated Assault - correct answer Any person who intentionally causes serious bodily injury to another or uses a dangerous weapon or other means of force likely to produce death or seriously bodily injury. ALI - correct answer Automatic Location Identification BLS - correct answer Basic Life Support ANI - correct answer Automatic Number Identification AOA - correct answer Angle of Arrival - Technology used in locating cel phones AP&P - correct answer Adult probation and parole ATL - correct answer Attempt to locate
Automatic Aid - correct answer Predetermined area in which two or more fire departments have agreed, in advance, to protect by dual initial response and will automatically be dispatched by the appropriate agency w/ out require a request from the other agency. AVL - correct answer Automatic Vehicle Location - A means of determining the location of publice safety vehicles, usually utilitzing GPD Arson - correct answer Intentional setting of a fire to a building or other property to defraud or for any other illegal or malicious purpose. BAC - correct answer Blood Alcohol Content Bailiff - correct answer Court executive officer, usually a deput sheriff Base Station - correct answer A receiver, transmitter and power supply assembled as a unit and installed at a fixed location to communicate with mobile stations. Backfire - correct answer Sometimes called 'control fire' - its a deliberate setting of fire in the path of a spreading wild land fire in order to stop the spread of the main fire. BCI - correct answer Bureau of Criminal Identification Brandishing - correct answer Exhibiting a firearm (loaded or unloaded) or other deadly weapon in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, except in self defense. Burglary - correct answer The act of entering an enclosed area for the purpose of comitting a felony, and/or taking what does not belong to them.