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What does PSAP stand for?
Public Safety Answering Points
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What is the roll of the telecommunicator?
The telecommunicator translates caller information into agency action
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What is the generally accepted time period to dispatch?
One minute
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Standard for Professional Qualifications for Public Safety Telecommunicator (Policies and Procedures) or the communications process. PERSON
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1061
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Standard for the Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Emergency Services Communications System (Facilities and Equipment) EQUIPMENT
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1221
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How many ways does the NFPA classify CAD systems?
3
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NFPA 1221 classifies CAD systems in the following ways
- Class 1 - A complex CAD system that uses computers to track unit status, makes unit recommendations, and dispatches those units upon request.
- Class 2 - A CAD system with similar capabilities but not equipped for an automatic switchover.
- Class 3 - A basic status-keeping CAD system that requires more data entry by the telecommunicator (our system)
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Engine-driven generators for backup power supply must be capable of providing emergency power for how long?
24 hours
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What does HVAC stand for?
Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning system
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Which of the following are considered to be the greatest improvement in emergency dispatch; computer, radio or telephone
Radio
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The door to the center must be protected with a self closing assembly that has at least _______ fire rating. (How long)
1 hour
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What operation is staffed and run by a single agency such as a fire department, a police department, or an emergency medical provider
Independent Operations
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What operation serves only one category of public safety -- fire, police, or medical & Staff is specialized in only one area of public safety expertise. i.e. this type of dispatcher would dispatch police units for several police departments but would not dispatch fire or medical units.
Consolidated Operations
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What operation provides telecommunications for more than one type of public safety service, for example a combination of fire, law, medical, local government, etc.
Integrated Operations
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What is FCC?
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the main regulator of radio frequencies in the United States
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Technique was developed to ensure continuing communication if the communication network were damaged by war or natural disaster. Breaks a digital information stream into segments (provides connectionless service)
Packet Switching
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A connection oriented packet format that breaks traffic into cells. It mixes traffic from a variety of sources and media on the same communications facilities.
Cell Switching or ATM
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A system that uses multiple frequencies. The user access the first available frequency. The users share a common identification instead of a common frequency
Trunking
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9-1-1 service that has party hold, forced disconnect, and ring back
Basic 9-1-1
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9-1-1 service that has selective routing, automatic number identification (ANI), automatic location information (ALI)
Enhanced 9-1-1
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Basic 9-1-1 service allows a telecommunicator to maintain access to a caller's phone line. This feature will, in essence seize the calling person's phone line. If they pick the phone back up they will still be connected to the communicator
Party Hold
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Basic 9-1-1 feature that drops the call out of the system and opens up the 9-1-1 line for the next caller
Forced Disconnect
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Basic 9-1-1 service that allows the telecommunicator to call back a calling party's phone after the person has hung up.
Ring Back
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Advance 9-1-1 service that allows for a 9-1-1 call to be routed to the correct PSAP for that jurisdiction.
Selective Routing
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Phone numbers for everyone or a table that directs calls from that number to the appropriate PSAP. name, phone number, callers address and in some areas the type of service - residential , business, or pay phone (In test name, #, & location is this)
Automatic Number Identification (ANI)
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Automatic Location Information (ALI)
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What is CAD?
Computer Aided Dispatch systems
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Phone system where fluctuating sound waves from a caller's voice cause vibration in the telephone's transmitter, these vibrations trigger electrical signals that vary in frequency and strength...at the other end the process is reversed as the receiver generates vibrations that re-create the voice.
Analog
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Phone system where sound converted to a series of pulses that encode the information and put back together when it’s received.
Digital
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Transmission lines that allows many signals to be transmitted across one medium. It works by routing each call on a different electrical frequency.
Multiplexing
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What is TDD?
Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
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A device that depends on standard telephones to send text one letter at a time using a series of beeps
Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD)
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What year did the Americans with Disabilities Act require public safety agencies to be accessible by a text phone or TDD
1980
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Only a small percentage of the phones in a system can obtain dial tone at the same time, when a person picks up a phone line, and it takes several seconds to hear a dial tone this is?
Slow Dial Tone
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This busy indicates the phone number called is off the hook or busy
Slow busy
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This busy is an indication that the circuits attempting to complete the call are busy and the call did not get through.
Fast busy
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What frequencies range from 30 MHz to 76MHz and tend to have long radio waves.
Low Band (VHF-LO)
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Most popular frequencies for public safety agencies and contain frequencies in the range of 150 MHz to 176 MHz and are relatively short wavelength frequencies.
Hi Band (VHF-HI)
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Frequencies in this band range from 400MHz to 512 MHz a portion of this band is available throughout the country the remaining are for television stations to operate.
- Ultrahigh Frequency (UHF)
- Used by Federal
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806 MHz 896 MHz with the ability to handle high-speed data. This is the only frequency band upon which trunking has been implemented
- 800 MHz (technically still part of the UHF band)
- Used by Civilians
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The vast majority of these systems have been one-way paging system.
900 MHz and Higher Frequencies
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Communications that is only one frequency used for both transmitting and receiving, and only in one direction.
Simplex
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Communications that is a transmission over a circuit capable of transmitting in either direction but only one direction at a time.
Half-Duplex System
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Communications system that enable a field unit and a telecommunicator to talk at the same time.
Full-Duplex System
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What is a layman’s definition of a repeater?
It repeats the radio signal, like in baseball the fielder would throw the ball to the shortstop to get it to home. The repeater is the shortstop
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In telecommunications , what is a method for a system to provide network access to many clients by sharing a set of lines or frequencies instead of providing them individually.
Trunking (we have 7 phone trunks and 13 (I think) radios frequencies in the pot)
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What is the system where the receiver is programmed only to respond to signals on the frequency that are either preceded or accompanied by another preset tone frequency?
Tone-Coded Squelch Systems
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What alarm system is connected directly to the local police or fire department? Goes from the protected premises to the receiving equipment at the local PD/FD
Direct-Connect Alarm (like our D21)
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An Alarm company or similar company in the local community receiving or monitoring the alarm. The company installs, maintains and monitors the alarm system.
Central Station Monitoring (like IDS)
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An alarm system that provides an alert on the protected premises. If a PD/FD response is required the occupant must call the department.
Local Alarm (like the detector in your home)
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Types of Alarm System Devices
- Smoke Detectors
- Carbon monoxide detectors
- Thermal (heat) sensitive devices
- Invisible products of combustion detectors
- Flame Detectors
- Water flow detectors
- Other alarm activation devices
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Detect the presence of smoke in the area is a
Smoke Detector
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Detect the presence of carbon monoxide at levels that pose a health hazard
Carbon monoxide detectors
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Detect the change in temperature of the protected premises.
Thermal (heat) sensitive devices
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What are the two types of heat (thermal) detectors?
- Fixed temp devices - activate when the ambient temp rises above a predetermined level
- Rate of rise device - Respond to quick changes in the ambient temp and activate when a change has exceeded a predetermined amount
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Detector that is able to detect ionized particles released in combustion
Invisible products of combustion detectors
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Types of Flame detectors
- UV detectors
- Infrared detectors
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Detect the movement of water within the sprinkler system or standpipe
Water flow detectors
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Public information term usually related to weather forecasting and associated with fire service responses.
The fire danger rating
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Provides indices based on weather, fuel conditions, and fire behavior for suppression operations.
National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS)
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What 4 functions a telecommunicator must do to adequately perform the job?
- Hearing
- Sight
- Manual Dexterity
- Speech
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Other Communications Skills required for a dispatcher
- Basic reading skills
- Basic writing skills
- Ability to speak clearly
- Ability to follow written and verbal instructions
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What is Keyboarding?
Fill in short fields on formats on the computer screen. The ability to use tab keys, function keysm, and number pads effectively
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What is AVL?
Automatic Vehicle Locating system
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What is considered to be prompt answering for our location?
90% of calls within 15 seconds from the time it hits us.
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What is vital information that is at least the minimum required information to be obtained?
- Location/address
- Type and nature of incident/situation
- Time that the incident occurred/is occurring
- Callers Phone number
- Caller's location if different from the incident location
- Callers Name
- Callers Address
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What map covers and shows surface features of an area such as roads, water and some building and jurisdictional boundaries. (Usually in a populated area)
Grid Maps
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What map s is particularly well suited for areas with hilly terrain or that have canyons or other valleys.
Topographical Maps
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Maps that are used for waterways, such as; rivers, lakes, canals or sea
Navigation Maps
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Show primarily the location of roadways
Road Maps
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What is the Incident Timeline?
- Incipient Phase
- Discovery Phase
- Notification Phase (Part of Data Gathering-DG)
- Alerting Resources (DG)
- Reaction Time Phase (DG)
- Response Time (DG)
- Arrival & Size-Up Phase (On-scene Incident Operations Phase OI & DG
- Incident Termination Phase (IO & DG)
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Priority System 1
Imminent threat to life, in-progress incident
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Priority System 2
Possible threat to life, in-progress incident
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Priority System 3
Imminent threat to property, in-progress incident
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Priority System 4
Possible threat to property, in progress incident
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Priority System 5
Potential threat to life, devolving or likely to occur incident
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What are the key decision-making factors that affect resource selection?
- Priority
- Geographical Area
- Incident type
- Resource availability
- Weather
- Special circumstances
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Consists of all fire service equipment and personnel in a designated geographical area, typically commanded by an officer designated as a chief officer
Division/district/battalion
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Person who is in charge of all fire department personnel and apparatus assigned to a specific station
Station Commander
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Person who is in charge of the fire department personnel assigned to a specific piece of fire department apparatus
Apparatus or Company Officer
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The apparatus and fire department personnel that should be the first to reach the scene of an emergency.
First-due Company
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A geographical area which a particular apparatus is assigned to be first due on a fire or other emergency incident
Response District
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Person responsible for the stations located in that geographical district -- usually about 5 per
Battalion Chief
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A device that ranges in lengths from 50 feet (15m) to more than 135 feet (41m) aerial apparatus
Truck or Ladder
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Apparatus that’s primary purpose is to transport specially trained firefighters and their equipment; specializes in fires, automobile collisions, and many other emergencies.
Rescue/Heavy Rescue
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The apparatus is designed to provide a mobile water supply
Tanker or Tender
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What is ICS?
Incident Command System
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Person who is ultimately responsible for all incident activities, including the development and implementation of a strategic plan
Incident Commander
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What is IMS?
Incident Management System (IMS)
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5 major areas of IMS are
- Command - Safety, Liaison, & Information
- Operations
- Planning
- Logistics
- Finance/Administration
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The function of directing, ordering, and controlling resources by virtue of explicit legal, agency, or delegated authority is the what?
Command
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The geographic designation assigning responsibility for all operations within a defined area.
Divisions
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Is a functional designation (such as forcible entry, salvage, ventilation, etc?)
Group
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Incident Action Plan (IAP) should reflect
- Ensuring personnel safety and survival
- Rescuing or evacuating endangered occupants
- Eliminating the hazard
- Conducting loss control
- Cleaning up and protecting the environment
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Who is primarily responsible for formulating the Incident Action Plan and for coordinating and directing all incident resources to implement the plan and meet its goals and objectives?
Incident Commander
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What is necessary to Transfer Command?
The person command is being transferred to has to be on scene.
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In command of a division a group or a sector is a...
Supervisor
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When a large incident in one jurisdiction overwhelms the resources of that jurisdiction or leaves it unable to handle a second incident in its borders.
Mutual Aid
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An outside agency is notified at the same time as the agency that has jurisdiction where the incident falls. The company responds based on this call.
Automatic Aid
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