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FirefightersExit a hazardous area: Follow a wall as the guideline (house)
Follow a wall as the guideline. The building is a house. As one of a two-person search and rescue team, with your vision obscured, you get out of a hazardous area: you find a safe haven before your air runs out, without putting others at risk and keeping the team together. It is station 4-7 of Ohio's Firefighter I practical exam (NFPA 1001 4.3.5).
Free to startThis scenario
- Follow a wall as the guideline.
- The building is a house.
The steps
- Communicate and work as a team member with your vision obscured.
- Find and follow a guideline: a wall, a rope or a hose line.
- Conserve your air.
- Check the areas for hazards.
- Find and identify a safe haven before your air runs out.
- Exit the hazardous area as a team.
- Do not put the other team members at risk.
- Keep the team together.
- No unsafe act during the evaluation.
To pass
- All 9 steps.
- You work with a partner, and each one can fail alone for: losing situational awareness, wrong body posture, not identifying the building openings and features, or losing physical and verbal contact with the partner.
- The area has several rooms, about 300 to 400 square feet (28 to 37 m²), and the smoke used must not be toxic (NFPA 1404).
- 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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