The amount of responsibility an EMT typically has at the scene of a hazmat incident is determined by:

Of the following tasks, which must the EMT do first upon arrival at a scene with a potential hazmat?

The role of the EMT as the first to arrive at the scene of a hazmat incident is to:

Ensuring bystander safety at the scene of an multiple casualty incident (MCI) is the primary responsibility of the:

Establishing safety zones should be completed _________ a hazmat operation.

To keep bystanders safe at or near a hazmat operation, the EMT should first:

You believe that a product with a flammability hazard is present at the scene. Your partner goes to the ambu-
lance and brings back a hazmat resource guide, which states that a flammability hazard may have any of the following warnings, except:

After responding to a low-priority call for a sick person, you quickly discover that there are two others in the residence with the same symptoms as the patient, but to a lesser degree. All three have headache, nausea, and dizziness and you suspect
possible inhalation poisoning. The next action you take is to:

On the scene of a call for a sick person, you suspect that there is a hazard in the basement. The patient had been working down there for an hour when he developed a cough, watery eyes, and nausea. You are upstairs and do not have any resources immediately available to help with information about the substance he was working with. At this point you:

When approaching the scene of a hazmat incident. the ambulance needs to stay clear of all spills, vapors, fumes, and smoke. This is usually achieved by:

As an EMT trained to the hazmat awareness level, your duties are to:

Dispatch has put out a call for a 30-year-old male with possible exposure to a hazardous material. Before you arrive at the scene, an updated report from dispatch informs you that the material was liquid chlorine and that it was splashed in the atient's face. When you arrive, as you perform a scene size-up your first priority is to:

When arriving at the scene of a hazmat incident in progress, the ambulance should report and stage in the _____ zone.

You are assisting in the decontamination of a patient who accidentally splashed diesel fuel on his head, face, chest, and extremities. The first step you took was to instruct the patient to remove his clothing and then pour water on himself. This step is referred to as _________ decontamination.

During a hazmat incident, a treatment sector (group) is established so that EMS can:

_________ is the process of removing hazardous materials from exposed persons and equipment at a hazmat incident.

An early-morning fire in an apartment complex has 36 residents out on the street watching their homes being destroyed. Many of the residents were asleep when the fire started, and nearly half of them are coughing or complaining of a burning sensation in the throat. Until proven otherwise, EMS should suspect that:

Your unit was dispatched to stand by at a tire fire in a junkyard. You have been staged a quarter-mile away. From there you can see that the fire is significant and that black smoke is rising in extremely large clouds. With residential housing urrounding three sides of the junkyard, which of the following environmental factors could create an immediate hazard for these residents?

Dispatch sends you down to Pier 3 for an injured worker. When you arrive you discover that the victim is pinned by a piece of iron and a second person was injured while attempting to free the first victim. This incident is now a(n):

It is 23:00 hours and you are responding to a private residence for an alcohol overdose. Police are on the scene when you arrive; they advise you that there was a party with teenage drinking. As you size up the scene, it is apparent that several teenagers are highly intoxicated. You immediately advise dispatch to send two additional ambulances and declare this to be a(n):

At 07:00 hours, it is a foggy morning and you are dispatched to a motor vehicle collision. When you arrive and complete a scene size-up, you find a bus on its side with the unresponsive driver still inside, but no additional passengers. A second vehicle is involved, and there are four occupants with various complaints of injury. This incident is a:

The EMT who establishes command at a large incident will determine how many sector (group) functions to establish based on:

As the first ambulance to arrive at the scene of an extrication involving a hazardous material, you complete a scene size-up, notify dispatch, and begin any possible hazard control. The EMT's approach to hazard control should be limited to:

Your assignment at the scene of a multiple casualty incident is to oversee the treatment of patients who have been triaged. This assignment is designated:

When you have more than one patient to manage, you need to determine which one is more severely injured
or ill. This is referred to as:

As the second ambulance arriving on scene at a large office building, which has begun evacuation of its employees because of an unusual odor, you are assigned the detail of triage tagging. This phase is important because:

Typically, the only treatment completed on a patient in the triage stage of a multiple casualty incident is:

Under the incident command system, the ________ section is responsible for coordinating services and materials, such as the communications unit, medical unit, or food unit, for major incidents.

The role of the EMT in a disaster operation is to:

The EMT can better understand what his role may be in disaster operations by:

An incident has become large enough to require the resources of agencies outside of the community. Communication among all the resources will:

Before a disaster that could involve numerous victims occurs, many communities preplan and train for various possibilities. These plans use a tool called _______ " which manages personnel and resources during a multiple casualty incident.

The larger a multiple casualty incident (MCI) is, the more functional components may be required. With enough resources, the incident commander can utilize up to four components, which include:

Many emergency departments will ________ before they accept a hazmat patient, even when that patient was decontaminated at the scene.

To prevent unnecessary contamination of EMS equipment at the scene of a hazmat incident, the EMT should:

To help prevent contamination of the ambulance by a patient who has been exposed to a hazardous material,
during the decontamination phase the:

As a proactive EMT, you have been reviewing the local MCI plan. Now you want to learn more about the
areas in your community where hazardous materials are stored in large quantities and the location of possible sites for an incident. Therefore, you:

The role of EMS command within the incident command system at a large incident is to:

_________ is the cooperation of multiple agencies working as one at a major incident, such as fire or train
derailment.

At the scene of a multiple casualty incident, the consolidated action plan is typically developed at the:

EMS and fire are dispatched for a fire alarm at a dance club. When you arrive, there is a crowd standing outside the building and the police and fire departments are on the scene. The club manager reports that a spotlight over the stage started smoking and set off the fire alarm; the crowd panicked and a few customers were injured while exiting the building,
You grab your triage tags and begin to get a count
of the number of patients, and you start sorting them to determine which ones will need immediate emergency care. After an initial triage, which of the following patients can be considered a P-3, green, or categorized with minor injuries?

Your unit has been dispatched to a local produce farm for a patient who has abdominal pain. Two hours after beginning work today, a 19-year-old male began complaining of severe abdominal cramps and nausea, and he has a new skin irritation with redness
and itching on both arms and his neck. Shortly after arriving, you discover that there are multiple patients on the scene, with similar symptoms, who are all going to require transport for evaluation. Three more patients are complaining of headache, eye irritation, sore throat, nausea, and dizziness. What is the next action to take?

A medical emergency that creates a number of patients and places excessive demands on personnel and available equipment is referred to as a(n):

You have been dispatched with the fire department for two people stuck in an elevator. When you arrive, you learn that the power is out because of an electrical fire in the building. There is a smoke condition and the building is being evacuated. What can you do to protect the two victims in the elevator?

___________ is the type of terrain that can become dangerous, because of difficult footing, when carrying
a patient in a basket.

A teenager is stranded on a large rock in fast-running water approximately 25 feet from the shore. A special
rescue team has been called and you are awaiting its arrival. What can you do until the rescue team arrives?

Ropes, an exposure suit, and a personal flotation device (PFD) are the equipment needed for which
type of rescue?

Confined spaces are deceiving and can present a great threat to a rescuer because:

Plenty of resources have been dispatched to a motel fire, but your ambulance is the first unit to arrive. Flames and smoke are visible, and you quickly identify two victims at a third-floor window who are trapped by the fire. You should attempt a rescue only when: