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FirefightersAssist rescue team operations: An elevator or escalator emergency (night)
An elevator or escalator emergency. It happens at night. With standard operating procedures, the rescue equipment needed and an assignment, you help a technical rescue team: procedures are followed, rescue items are recognized and brought in the time set, and the assignment is completed. It is station 5-8 of Ohio's Firefighter II practical exam (NFPA 1001 5.4.2).
Free to startThis scenario
- An elevator or escalator emergency.
- It happens at night.
The steps
- Identify and bring the different types of rescue tools.
- Set up barriers to keep the public back.
- Help the rescue team as a member of it when assigned.
- No unsafe act during the evaluation.
To pass
- All 4 steps.
- You are not expected to master technical rescue skills, only to help the technical rescue teams work safely.
- The evaluator can stop the station at any time for an unsafe act.
Official source
State · Ohio EMS 5920
Firefighter II Practical Examination Skill Sheets (EMS 5920)
Ohio publishes every Firefighter II skill sheet free: the steps, the critical points and the minimum to pass.
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