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FirefightersAir monitoring: Indoors (house, night)

Indoors. The building is a house. It happens at night. With an Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG), an air monitor and an assignment, you look up an identified hazard and run the monitor: you recognize its high and low alarms and act to reduce the hazard. It is station 4-28 of Ohio's Firefighter I practical exam (NFPA 1001 4.1.2 and 4.3.21).

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This scenario

  • Indoors.
  • The building is a house.
  • It happens at night.

The steps

  1. Operate the air monitor.
  2. Find the information in the ERG.
  3. Recognize the air monitor alarms.
  4. React to the air monitor alarms.
  5. Take, or say, the action to reduce the hazard.
  6. No unsafe act during the evaluation.

To pass

  • All 6 steps.
  • Simulators approved by the program can be used.
  • The evaluator can stop the station at any time for an unsafe act.

Official source

State · Ohio EMS 5919

Firefighter I Practical Examination Skill Sheets (EMS 5919)

Ohio publishes every Firefighter I skill sheet free: the steps, the critical points and the minimum to pass.

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