Questions!

[ImBeaming]

Hey guys, I know this looks bad but I really need to finish my homework for my fire science intro class and I dont have the book. If you knowledgeable firefighters can lend a hand to someone who desperately needs help.. then thanks.

First question: The rear of a building is called "Division ____ "
Second: What is the 2 in 2 out rule? I've heard its 2 go in and 2 are ready by the door. Corrrect me if Im wrong.
Third: Why "accountability" on the fireground is important.

[DeputyChiefGonzo]

Excuses excuses... and yes it looks bad....

First question: The rear of a building is called "Division ____ "

It's not. It called the C side or Charlie side. A division is a floor.. or the basement or roof.

Second: What is the 2 in 2 out rule? I've heard its 2 go in and 2 are ready by the door. Corrrect me if Im wrong.

They don't have to be by the door, but they have to be ready.

Third: Why "accountability" on the fireground is important.

You have to know who is there and where they are so when the fecal matter strikes the rapidly spinning and oscillating air movement device, you can take a PAR and make sure you still have the same number of people answering the PAR as you did when you first arrived on scene.

[st42stephenAFT]

1) Depends on the department. Some departments use numbers, some letters. My department uses letters. So the front side of the house is division A. Then proceeding clockwise, you label each side. So the left side of the house would be division B and the rear would be Division C for my department.

2) You're correct. There needs to be 2 firefighters in full gear with equipment ready to enter the structure if something goes wrong before 2 firefighters can enter the structure for the call.

3) Think about this one, it's quite easy. Why do you want to know who's on your crew, and where they are at a fire?

[ImBeaming]

Haha, I really dont have the book! Ive had to look through online for answers and its been a pain since the start of class (5 weeks ago). As for the first question, are you sure about that? Because I would doubt my teacher would ask this question without making sure. But nonetheless, your help was greatly appreciated. Thanks Gonzo!

Edit: stephen, thanks for the help also! Im guessing thats what my teacher was referring to for the first question. And yeah, I had a hunch about the last question but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks again.

Wow this forums too helpful, Im gonna have to check on it daily now =]

[BoxAlarm187]

It's not. It called the C side or Charlie side. A division is a floor.. or the basement or roof.

In my department, it's Division C (incidating a side) and Division 1 (incidating the floor).

[YFDLt08]

Hey guys, I know this looks bad you're right, it does but I really need to finish my homework for my fire science intro class and I dont have the book. Good choice to get online and ask random strangers instead of calling a classmate or showing up to class early. If you knowledgeable firefighters can lend a hand to someone who desperately needs help.. then thanks. helping poor lost souls is what we do

First question: The rear of a building is called the back"Division ____is for math "
Second: What is the 2 in 2 out rule? I've heard its 2 go in and 2 are ready by the door. Corrrect me if Im wrong.You're getting warmer.
Third: Why "accountability" on the fireground is important. Because some clowns can't do their own homework or be responsible for themselves, so the rest of the crew ends up babysitting them, hence the need for accountability on the fireground.

Hope this helps. Feel free to let us know what your next assignment is so we can work ahead.

[ImBeaming]

Hope this helps. Feel free to let us know what your next assignment is so we can work ahead.

[Robertpferry]

No really, buy a book. 5 weeks into class and you're this unprepared? I know it's hard these days to get a book early. I'm actually trying to set up a store online where folks can get text books, hell ANY book, at a cheap price and quickly. I'm thinking about calling it Amazon.com.

[DeputyChiefGonzo]

Haha, I really dont have the book! Ive had to look through online for answers and its been a pain since the start of class (5 weeks ago). As for the first question, are you sure about that? Because I would doubt my teacher would ask this question without making sure. But nonetheless, your help was greatly appreciated. Thanks Gonzo!

Yes, I am sure. I didn't get to my present position by being stupid... and 5 weeks into a course without having the book.. well, that's stupid.

That's what is taught at the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy, that is what my FD uses as well as all of our surrounding communities. The front of the building is the alpha side, left is the Bravo, rear is Charlie and right is Delta.
A crew working in the basement is the basement division, a crew on the first floor would be division 1, the second floor would be division 2, the crew opening up the roof would be the roof division.

B, C and D sound too much alike, and if you have personnel that "eat the mike" or are screamers, you can easily misunderstand a command or miss a mayday location with deadly consequences.

[Blulakr]

Hey guys, I know this looks bad but I really need to finish my homework for my fire science intro class and I dont have the book. If you knowledgeable firefighters can lend a hand to someone who desperately needs help.. then thanks.

First question: The rear of a building is called "Division ____ "
Second: What is the 2 in 2 out rule? I've heard its 2 go in and 2 are ready by the door. Corrrect me if Im wrong.
Third: Why "accountability" on the fireground is important.

Hey guys, I know this looks bad but I really need help with this one. I half-assed my way thru training so I don't really have a clue and now I'm inside a burning structure. My partner's almost out of air, I don't know where we are or how to use the radio and I'm panicking. We are experiencing rollover and flashover is eminent. Do I....

A; leave my partner and go for help
B; take my mask off and let my partner have it
C; cry for my mommy
D: wish I had taken my training more seriously

[LVFD301]

Hey guys, I know this looks bad but I really need to finish my homework for my fire science intro class and I dont have the book. If you knowledgeable firefighters can lend a hand to someone who desperately needs help.. then thanks.

First question: The rear of a building is called "Division ____ "
Second: What is the 2 in 2 out rule? I've heard its 2 go in and 2 are ready by the door. Corrrect me if Im wrong.
Third: Why "accountability" on the fireground is important.

If it was my class, I would give you 10 points extra credit for figuring out where to find the answers. Improvise, adapt, and overcome.

You would need the points, as I docked you 10 points per week that you were unprepared.

[FIREMECH1]

We are the same for building sides. A-Alpha is front, then C-Charlie is the rear. However, divisions are the levels of the buildings. Division 2 is the second floor. For multiple underground floors, they start at zero, then negative (-1).

Our 2in-2out is the same. However, it isn't practical or used very often. The scene and manpower dictates that rule.

Accountability??? See DeputyChiefGonzo's answer. The BC pulls all the PAT's on all responding rigs so he knows who is who, and where.

FM1

[FyredUp]

This is almost as ludicrous as the student I had in an Entry Level FF course. The State of Wisconsin in those days supplied each student with a current edition of IFSTA Essentials, all nicely sealed in celophane. I handed out the books and told them about the reading assignments each week. Every week this student brought his book to class, still wrapped in the original celophane. I finally said to him "How do you use your book? Do you lay your head on it and hope the material will flow through the celophane into your head like osmosis?" It didn't matter, he never opened the book. I suspect numbskulls like him were the reason the state stopped buying the books.



ImBeaming:

5 weeks into class and you don't have a book that you are using to prepare for class? Sorry, like the guy above you are a waste of classroom space. If you want to be a firefighter then be one. Man up. Buy a book. Otherwise you are nothing but a slug having others do your work for you.

[DeputyChiefGonzo]

Hey guys, I know this looks bad but I really need help with this one. I half-assed my way thru training so I don't really have a clue and now I'm inside a burning structure. My partner's almost out of air, I don't know where we are or how to use the radio and I'm panicking. We are experiencing rollover and flashover is eminent. Do I....

A; leave my partner and go for help
B; take my mask off and let my partner have it
C; cry for my mommy
D: wish I had taken my training more seriously

In "ImBeaming's" case... c and d!

[FWDbuff]

Hey guys, I know this looks bad but I really need to finish my homework for my fire science intro class and I dont have the book.

But I bet you've had plenty of time to party, hang out at the VFD, stare at your blue lights and touch yourself, fingerbang Mary Jane Rottencrotch through her perty pink panties, etc etc etc......Everything except grow up and realize you now have big-boy responsibilities......

And questioning Gonzo.....I almost spit my drink on the computer over that one...

You're lucky you got the answers. Mine would have been "5 weeks is long enough. Get the book and you'll have the answers." Do Mommy and Daddy know they are blowing their money???