Fire Service History and Driver/Operator Fundamentals

Vocabulary flashcards covering fire service history, apparatus equipment, and driver/operator priorities based on lecture notes and study questions.

Second leading cause of fire fighter fatalities

Injuries sustained while responding or returning from the fireground.

Firehook

A tool used in the early years of U.S. firefighting history to pull down a burning building and prevent the fire from spreading to nearby structures.

Diesel engines

Engines that replaced gasoline engines as the power system of choice for the fire service following the development of larger-capacity pumps requiring greater horsepower.

Wood

The material used by the city of Philadelphia in the early 1800s to develop a municipal water supply system.

Engine brake

A type of auxiliary braking system that slows a vehicle by opening valves in the cylinders of diesel engines to divert compression from the cylinders to create drag.

Engineer

The term used to identify the fire fighter charged with operating the steam engine.

Fire plugs

The name early U.S. fire hydrants were first called.

First priority of the driver/operator

Safety.

Mounting devices

Apparatus components such as brackets, racks, or trays, which are not standardized.