FBI

→ Arabic: إِف بِي أَي (ʔif bī ʔay)

→ Bulgarian: ФБР (FBR)

→ Dutch: FBI

→ French: FBI

→ Galician: FBI

desc

→ Hindi: एफ़ बी आई (ef bī āī)

→ Hindi: एफ़ बी आई (ef bī āī)

→ Indonesian: FBI

→ Japanese: エフ・ビー・アイ

→ Japanese: エフ・ビー・アイ

→ Marathi: एफ्.बी.आय्. (eph.bī.āy.)

→ Persian: افبیآی

→ Portuguese: FBI

→ Romanian: FBI

→ Russian: ФБР (FBR)

→ Thai: เอฟบีไอ

→ Thai: เอฟบีไอ

(Australia, weather, firefighting) fire behaviour index


apparatus

en-noun

apparatus (plural apparatuses or apparatusses or apparatus or (both rare) apparatûs or apparatūs or (hypercorrect) apparati)

apparatuses (plural)
apparatusses (plural)
apparatus (plural)
apparatûs (plural rare)
apparatūs (plural rare)
apparati (hypercorrect plural rare)

/æp.əˈɹɑː.təs/

Borrowed from Latin apparātus. Doublet of apparat.

(firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.


PPV

PPV (countable and uncountable, plural PPVs)

positive pressure ventilation
positive pressure ventilation#English

(medicine, firefighting) Abbreviation of positive pressure ventilation.

(countable, by extension) A positive pressure ventilation machine, a PPV device

HFPPV

high frequency positive pressure ventilation

IPPV

intermittent positive pressure ventilation

NPPV

noninvasive positive pressure ventilation

NiPPV

non-invasive positive pressure ventilation


fire engine

A fire aboard TfW 175007, working a Holyhead-Cardiff Central service on February 8, closed the A483 road while five fire engines from Wrexham, Deeside, and Cheshire attended the scene.

2023 March 22, “Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:

(firefighting, vehicles) A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine carries a supply of water and has the ability to connect to an external water supply.


firefighter

From fire + fighter. Created as a gender-neutral term for fireman and firewoman.

(firefighting) A person who has been trained to put out fires.


rehab

rehab (countable and uncountable, plural rehabs)

(firefighting) A brief period of time spent away from the fire by a firefighter at a fire scene, for purposes of recuperation.


deluge

From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.

deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set

2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A
In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.

On June 8, 2005, a decomposition reaction occurred in the manifold system on a mobile acetylene trailer at Western's Bellville plant that caused the fusible plugs of five cylinders to melt, releasing the products of decomposition. The materials released did not ignite before the deluge system was manually activated, controlling the incident. The incident started when a mobile acetylene trailer, with the cylinder valves open and the manifold fully pressurized, was moved into another bay and the block valve was opened, which initiated an acetylene decomposition reaction.

2009 January 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “Earlier Western Accidents”, in Special Investigation Report: Mobile Acetylene Trailer Accidents: Fire During Unloading in Dallas, Texas, July 25, 2007; Fire During Unloading in The Woodlands, Texas, August 7, 2007; and Overturn and Fire in East New Orleans, Louisiana, October 20, 2007, archived from the original on 2022-01-20, page 18:

(firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.


fireman

By February 1944 there were over two thousand women employed at the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company [...]. There were also female firemen on almost every shipyard crane [...].

1993, Nancy F. Cott, editor, History of Women in the United States. Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. 15. Women and War, page 432:

For firemen everywhere rescuing cats from trees has been as much a part of the job as tackling blazing buildings.

30 June 2019, Don't call us for cats stuck in trees', Fire Brigade warns (Daily Telegraph)

(firefighting) Someone (especially one who is male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.


chauffeur

(firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.


foam

foam (countable and uncountable, plural foams)

From Middle English fom, foom, from Old English fām, from Proto-West Germanic *faim, from Proto-Germanic *faimaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)poHy-m-os, from *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Cognate with German Feim (“foam”), Latin spūma (“foam”), Latin pūmex (“pumice”), Sanskrit फेन (phéna, “foam”), possibly Northern Kurdish fê (“epilepsy”).

skuim

A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:

(firefighting) A collection of small bubbles formed by mixing an extinguishing agent with water, used to cover and extinguish fires.


foam

en-verb

foam (third-person singular simple present foams, present participle foaming, simple past and past participle foamed)

foams (present singular third-person)
foaming (participle present)
foamed (participle past)
foamed (past)

It used to be common practice to foam the runway prior to an emergency landing, in case a fuel-fed fire occurred.

(firefighting) To coat or cover with foam.


goer

From Middle English goere, equivalent to go + -er. Compare German Geher (“goer, walker”).

[…] multiple calls on Southwark's ground. From the radio traffic it sounded like they had a goer.

2023, A. J. Taylor, Firefighting: Better than Working for a Living:

(firefighting, slang) A fire incident in progress.


ladder

ladder (third-person singular simple present ladders, present participle laddering, simple past and past participle laddered)

ladders (present singular third-person)
laddering (participle present)
laddered (participle past)
laddered (past)

From Middle English ladder, laddre, from Old English hlǣder, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaidriju, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrijō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlóydʰrom, from *ḱley- (“to lean”).
Compare Scots ledder, North Frisian ladder, Saterland Frisian Laadere, West Frisian ljedder, Dutch ladder, leer, German Leiter); also Old Irish clithar (“hedge”), Umbrian 𐌊𐌋𐌄𐌈𐌓𐌀𐌌 (kleθram, “stretcher”)). See lean, which is related to lid.

The Rochdale climber spoken of once fell 70 feet from a mill at Linfitts, owing to an accident while he was laddering. He was terribly hurt, but recovered, and still carries on his trade with unshaken nerve.

1896, Chambers's Journal, Edinburgh, London: W. & R. Chambers, →OCLC, page 367:

A good working knowledge of the ladder parts, how they work, their capacities, and proper usage are a must before anyone is sent out to ladder a building.

1998, John Norman, Fire Officer's Handbook of Tactics, 2nd edition, Saddle Brook, N.J.: Fire Engineering, →ISBN, page 164:

He was barefoot, but he was wearing his climbing harness and was attached to Telperion with a rope. He unclipped the rope, detaching himself from the tree. He stepped out onto a branch and free-climbed up to Cordaro's hammock. […] He laddered his way barefoot to the very top of Telperion. He didn't use a rope, and he felt that any hominid with any dexterity could have pulled off the climb.

2007, Richard Preston, “Detonation Zone”, in The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN:

(chiefly firefighting) To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.


overhaul

/ˈəʊvəˌhɔːl/

/ˌəʊvəˈhɔːl/

(firefighting) The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite. Often this includes the process of salvage under the blanket term, salvage and overhaul.


engineer

→ Burmese: အင်ဂျင်နီယာ (anggyangniya)

→ Hawaiian: ʻenekinia

→ Hindi: इंजीनियर (iñjīniyar)

→ Japanese: エンジニア (enjinia)

desc

အိန်ဂျေန်နဳယျာ

→ Mon: အိန်ဂျေန်နဳယျာ

→ Mon: အိန်ဂျေန်နဳယျာ

→ Persian:

Dari: اِنْجِنِیر (injinīr)

/ˌɛn(d)ʒɪˈnɪə/

/ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/

The noun is derived from:
* Middle English enginour (“one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence, etc.; machine designer”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman enginour, engigneour [and other forms], and Middle French and Old French engigneor, engigneour, engignier (“one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence; architect; carpenter; craftsman; designer; planner; one who deceives or schemes”) (modern French ingénieur), from engin (“contraption, device; machine; invention; creativity, ingenuity; intelligence; deception, ruse, trickery”) + -eor, -or (suffix forming agent nouns); engin is derived from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature; intelligence, natural capacity; ability, skill, talent; (Medieval Latin) engine; machine”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + gignere (the present active infinitive of gignō (“to bear, beget, give birth to; to cause, produce, yield”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth to; to produce”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns); and
* from engine + -er (occupational suffix); and
* from engine + -eer (suffix forming nouns denoting people associated with, concerned with, or engaged in specified activities), possibly modelled after Middle French ingénieur (a variant of Middle French, Old French engigneour; see above), and Italian ingegniere (“engineer”) (obsolete; modern Italian ingegnere).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Medieval Latin, Late Latin ingeniārius (“engineer”)
* Medieval Latin ingeniator (“one constructing or using an engine”)
* Old Occitan engenhador, enginhador
* Portuguese engenhador (obsolete), engenheiro (“engineer”)
* Spanish engeñero (obsolete), ingeniero (“engineer”)

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(Late Middle English) engyner, (Middle English) engineour, enginer, engyneour, engyneor, engynour, yngynore

engineor, enginere, engineur, enginor, enginur

cog

A person trained to operate an engine; an engineman.

(US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine.


smoke explosion

en-noun

smoke explosion (plural smoke explosions)

(firefighting) An explosion of flue gases accumulated inside a burning building.


fire alarm

A four fire-alarm fire ripped through a row of 2.5 story frame dwellings during the early morning hours

(firefighting) An emergency response to a fire by the fire department with manpower and equipment.


fire truck

(firefighting, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A ladder truck, a vehicle used by firefighters to gain access to the upper stories of a building. Typically, a fire truck has a hydraulic system which operates a large, heavy-duty ladder mounted on top of the truck body, space for portable ladders to be stored and compartments for holding other tools that may be needed. Unlike a fire engine, trucks do not have pumps or carry water.


backdraft

(American spelling, firefighting) Sudden, dangerous recombustion that occurs when there is a rapid reintroduction of oxygen to an enclosed space containing a fire.

a different extreme fire behavior phenomenon


tanker

While our ground teams cut firebreaks in the brush, the tankers kept the fire in the mountains at bay with frequent drops of water and retardant.

(aviation, firefighting) An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.


fire hydrant

(firefighting) A device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main supply, consisting of a barrel, connections for hose and a valve assembly.

صُنْبُور حَرِيق

a device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main


knock down

en-verb

knock down (third-person singular simple present knocks down, present participle knocking down, simple past and past participle knocked down)

knocks down (present singular third-person)
knocking down (participle present)
knocked down (participle past)
knocked down (past)

(transitive, firefighting) To reduce the burning of (a fire), as by cooling it with water or dirt.


fire department

en-noun

fire department (plural fire departments)

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(firefighting, US) An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires. May provide other emergency services as well.


fire brigade

/ˈfaɪə(ɹ)bɹɪˌɡeɪd/

(firefighting, US) A group of people within a corporation or industrial site, organized for the purpose of putting out fires, usually in addition to their normal job.

فِرْقَة مَطَافِئ

group within a corporation or industrial site

see also fire service

(firefighting, UK, Ireland) An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires.

skuadër zjarrfikëse

organization for preventing and putting out fires

foyerwer

borrowed from German, Malmedy region, old


fire company

(firefighting, US) An organization whose purpose is to extinguish fires.

brannvesen

an organization whose purpose is to extinguish fires

(firefighting, US) A single emergency response unit and its personnel within a fire department


backfire

en-verb

backfire (third-person singular simple present backfires, present participle backfiring, simple past and past participle backfired)

backfires (present singular third-person)
backfiring (participle present)
backfired (participle past)
backfired (past)

(firefighting) To set a back fire (small, controlled fire to limit spread of a larger fire).


backfire

(firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire


LAT

(firefighting, aviation) Acronym of large airtanker (“a class of waterbomber”).


rollover

en-noun

rollover (countable and uncountable, plural rollovers)

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(firefighting) The sudden ignition of flammable gases (produced by pyrolysis in an oxygen-poor environment) near the ceiling of a room or other enclosed space.

palokaasujen syttyminen

firefighting: the sudden ignition of flammable gasses (produced by pyrolysis in an oxygen-poor environment) near the ceiling of a room or other enclosed space


AT

AT (countable and uncountable, plural ATs)

(firefighting, aviation) Abbreviation of air tanker.


backdraught

(firefighting, chiefly British spelling) Alternative spelling of backdraft


aerial ladder

(firefighting) A mechanically-extendable ladder mounted to a fire engine.


squad

From French escouade, from Italian squadra (“square”) (whence also French escadre). Doublet of squadra and square.

ջոկատ

small group of people organized for a purpose


hot spot

пизэке

place notable for a high level of activity or danger

A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.

(firefighting, forestry) A part of a forest fire which is burning actively.


bailout

(firefighting) The situation where a firefighter uses equipment to escape a structure where fire has proven uncontrollable.


quint

A musical or piquet term, or a quintuplet

From Middle French quint, from Latin quīntus.

(firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.


scooper

(aviation, firefighting, informal) A type of air tanker waterbomber airplane, which is capable of landing on water, and directly scooping up water to fill its tanks, by skimming the water's surface with scoops delopyed.


duckbill

duckbill eel

Nettastoma parviceps, or Nessorhamphus ingolfianus

duckbill ray

Aetobatus narinari or Pteromylaeus bovinus

(firefighting) A device used to force padlocks.


drafting

drafting (countable and uncountable, plural draftings)

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(firefighting) The act or process of drawing water out of a source.


jaws of life

By analogy with an actual jaw and the fact that this mechanical device allows the possibility of preserving the life of the victim being rescued.

2005, Mary Gordon, Pearl
Isn't there some machine used in car wrecks to extricate people called the jaws of life?

The power of the “jaws of life” were shown first and set aside.

2005, Chuck McCann, Short, Shorter and Shorter Stories, Volume 1, page 388

2009, Tony Evans, Tony Evan's Book of Illustrations
Even when drivers have had wrecks through no one's fault but their own, rescue crews still employ the "jaws of life" to get them out of trouble.

For the most terrible of car accidents, jaws of life have to be used to extricate the injured.

(firefighting) Emergency rescue equipment used to open a severely damaged passenger vehicle with a strong mechanical jaw function that forcibly pushes or pulls metal components apart, to quickly and somewhat safely extricate the trapped occupants.


probie

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A probie never complains. A probie keeps his mouth shut, his eyes open. A probie is never idle. A probie is always learning or drilling or cleaning. That's why you're still called a probie: for one year after you leave training school.

1997. Steve Delson. "The Fire Inside: Firefighters Talk About Their Lives", Page 41

(slang, firefighting) A neophyte firefighter.


waterbomber

Some 50 firefighters, 10 tankers and waterbombers battled the grass and scrub blaze, which began about 12.30pm.

2009 February 28, Anthony Dowsley, Jane Metlikovec, “Relief for Victorians as weather fails to hit extremes”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-02-28:

(firefighting, aviation) An aircraft that engages in waterbombing, usually in the course of fighting a wildfire.


polaski

Named for a forester, Edward Pulaski, who designed the tool.

A polaski is a cross between a pick, an^([sic]) standard axe, and a broad axe. It is used to cut through buried roots.

2002, Kent J. Johnson, Garden Railroading: Getting Started in the Hobby:

A shovel, a polaski (fire axe) and a gieke can for putting out campfires, disinfectant for cleaning outhouses and picnic tables.

2011, Sid Marty, Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook, page 285:

It was equipped with two water tanks, a pump and one inch rubber hose, plus the normal shovels, polaskis, first aid equipment, and radios.

(firefighting) A fire fighting hand tool consisting of ax or adz head on a wooden handle, used to dig a fireline.


increaser

(firefighting) An adapter for connecting hoses of differing diameters.


SEAT

(US, aviation, firefighting) Acronym of single-engine air tanker.


fire service

fire service (countable and uncountable, plural fire services)

(firefighting) Service in a fire department or other firefighting organization, whether as a chosen career, or as a result of volunteering or a form of prison labor.


multialarm

Fires which have heretofore been one‐alarm skirmishes are now multialarm small wars.

1977 February 14, Joseph E. Galvin, “Under Fire”, in The New York Times:

Two multialarm fires burned out of control for several hours in New York City last night, one racing through seven frame dwellings and leaving more than 100 people homeless in the Morrisania section of the Bronx and another, reportedly set by arsinists^([sic]), destroying a series of stores and residences in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

1977 July 25, “Fires Burn in Bronx and Brooklyn”, in The New York Times:

(US, firefighting, of a fire) Requiring the work of several firetrucks to contain or extinguish.


chemical engine

chemical engine (plural chemical engines)

(historical, 19th century, firefighting) A large cart-mounted fire extinguisher using caustic chemical-extinguishing chemicals.


fire bucket

Now he rushed to the platform edge carrying a full fire bucket, in a forlorn attempt to douse the flames as the now brightly burning wagon rolled past.

2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:

(firefighting) A bucket holding water or sand, etc., used to extinguish fires.


fire grenade

(obsolete, 19th century, firefighting) A glass bulb filled with caustic and often carcinogenic liquid chemicals that, when thrown and broken in a fire, smother the fire by removing oxygen.

消火弾

glass bulb filled with fire-extinguishing liquid


fire cabinet

(firefighting) a cabinet filled with firefighting equipment

(firefighting) a wall installation where a firehose and tap is located


counterfire

counterfire (countable and uncountable, plural counterfires)

(firefighting, countable) A smaller fire lit at some distance from a wildfire, in order to develop a firebreak.


counterfire

en-verb

counterfire (third-person singular simple present counterfires, present participle counterfiring, simple past and past participle counterfired)

counterfires (present singular third-person)
counterfiring (participle present)
counterfired (participle past)
counterfired (past)

(firefighting, intransitive) To light a smaller fire at some distance from a wildfire, in order to develop a firebreak.


blackline

From black + line; compare redline, greenline.

A second squad uses drip torches to begin burning a 15- to 20-foot barrier or “blackline” inside the wetline.

2011, Colorado Outdoors, volumes 49-50, page 11:

The helicopter is used to burn blacklines when the relative humidity is above 50%, temperature is below 50 degrees F, and wind speed is less than 6 mph.

1991, Rangeland Technology Equipment Council Annual Report, USDA Forest Service:

(firefighting) A line of deliberately burned material created to stop the advance of a larger fire.


drop tank

(firefighting) A portable tank used at the scene of a fire to hold water from the fire engine.


firebell

(firefighting) An alarm bell sounded in the event of a fire.


fireground

(firefighting) The site where a fire occurs or has recently occurred.


deluge gun

(firefighting) An aimable high-capacity water jet used in firefighting and fire protection systems.


five-alarm

(firefighting) The highest priority category of a multialarm fire.


hot zone

A hot zone was established quickly. Unfortunately, these efforts were compromised by a few MPD officers on the scene who did not understand the serious nature of the potential chemical/biological threat and treated the incident more as a bomb scare. These officers initially crossed in and out of the hot zone, and could have contaminated themselves and other personnel had this been a real incident.

1997, U S Fire Administration, FEMA, Fire Department Response to Biological Threat at B'nai B'rith Headquarters, page 6:

Medical monitoring is an essential aspect to conducting operations in the hot zone.

2004, Stanley E. Toy, Hot Zone Log: Personal HazMat Record, page 22:

Subsequently, it became evident that Iitate was a hot zone with very high levels of radiation contamination and all of its residents and evacuees had to be evacuated.

2012, Jeff Kingston, Contemporary Japan, page 210:

(firefighting) An area to which access is restricted because it is contaminated with radiation or a chemical or biological biohazard.


containment line

en-noun

containment line (plural containment lines)

(firefighting) A linear area which has been cleared of inflammable material in order to prevent a fire from spreading across it.


door opener

(sales): Compare get one's foot in the door.

The two most common types of door openers used are the "Hale" and the "Detroit".

1947, Connecticut. Bureau of Vocational Education., Regional Firemen Training Schools - Volume 2, page 8:

Within this one tool, you have the same basic feature of the door opener, crowbar, and hatchet.

1985, John A. Carley, Mavis V. Whigham, Fire protection specialist (AFSC 57150), page 24:

Although an old tool, the Detroit door opener still functions well when used correctly and will have devastating effects on today's standard locks and door closures.

1997, Richard A. Fritz, Tools of the Trade: Firefighting Hand Tools and Their Use, page 27:

Any of various devices designed to make opening a door easier.

(firefighting) A crowbar-like tool used by firefighters to quickly force locked doors to open.


whole-time

Whole-time employees with more than two years of service will be entitled to compensation, [...].

1941 November, “Notes and News: Abandoning the Clogher Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:

(especially firefighting or business) full-time


VLAT

(firefighting, aviation) Acronym of very large airtanker. (a class of waterbomber)


snozzle

A few minutes later, when the two RMFD vehicles arrived, the on-scene commander instructed one of them to take up a position on the left side of the airplane and to use its snozzle to apply firefighting agents in the airplane's main cargo compartment.

2005, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.15.3 Emergency Response”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Hard Landing, Gear Collapse, Federal Express Flight 647, Boeing MD-10-10F, N364FE, Memphis, Tennessee, December 18, 2003, archived from the original on 2020-10-18, page 24:

(aviation, firefighting) A reinforced firefighting nozzle used to pierce the exterior skin of an aircraft and spray water or firefighting foam inside the aircraft to help extinguish a fire.


watchout

A change in wind direction is a watchout.

Being uninformed on firefighting strategy and tactics is a watchout.

(firefighting) Any potentially hazardous condition or situation that may make a fire more dangerous.


wetline

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In cheatgrass the wetline technique has proven to be successful and is equally useful in other light to moderate grass fuels on relatively smooth terrain.

1982, Henry A. Wright, Fire Ecology: United States and Southern Canada, page 398:

We have used this method in the evening when strip headfires would burn into the wetline, but the backfire would go out.

1977, Robert E. Martin, Wetline Technique for Prescribed Burning Firelines in Rangeland:

(firefighting) A line that has been doused with water in order to stop the advance of a fire.


engine house

(firefighting) A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.


angel fingers

(firefighting) Tongues of flame that are a sign of impending rollover.


bunker out

en-verb

bunker out (third-person singular simple present bunkers out, present participle bunkering out, simple past and past participle bunkered out)

bunkers out (present singular third-person)
bunkering out (participle present)
bunkered out (participle past)
bunkered out (past)

(slang, firefighting, intransitive) To suit up in firefighting gear.


fog out

fog out (third-person singular simple present fogs out, present participle fogging out, simple past and past participle fogged out)

fogs out (present singular third-person)
fogging out (participle present)
fogged out (participle past)
fogged out (past)

(transitive, firefighting) To ventilate a space by breaking open a window to let smoke out.


drafting site

If you don’t have a drafting site, but you do have an accessible creek, is it possible to build an impoundment on the creek for fire water supply?

2012 March 1, “Drafting Tools & Techniques”, in FirefighterNation, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:

Conditions at the drafting site, however, were less than ideal, which forced the engine companies to violate some of the basic guidelines of drafting.

2017 November 1, “Urban Drafting Operations at a Chemical Warehouse Fire”, in Fire Engineering, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:

(firefighting) A designated location for a firefighter to draw or pump water out of a natural source, such as a lake or river.

Saugstelle

designated location for a firefighter to draw water out of a natural source


fire site

Colletti said having safety officers at fill and dump sites is a good idea because in most shuttle scenarios, everyone is rushing and in a hurry to get water to the fire site as quickly as possible, sometimes throwing caution to the wind.

2017 May 19, Ed Ballam, “Rural Water Supply for Fire Supression Is an Art Form”, in Firehouse, Nashville, Tennessee: Endeavor Business Media, retrieved 2024-11-01:

One of the key components of most water-shuttle operations is the use of dump tanks to hold water at the fire site for the initial pumpers to draw water from.

2014 March 1, “A Water-Shuttle & Drafting Drill”, in FirefighterNation, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:


fill site

The most important attribute of a fill site is a substantial and accessible water supply. Without a water source able to support fireground operations, a fill site is of little value.

2021 October 1, Andrew Corselli, “Highway Hydraulics: Main Street to Country Roads, Part 3: Routing and Fill Sites”, in Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:


filling site

Water shuttles involve a process in which tankers deliver their load of water to the emergency scene (the dump site), travel to a filling site, reload with water, and then return to the emergency scene to dump again.

2003, Safe Operation of Fire Tankers, Emmitsburg, Maryland: United States Fire Administration, retrieved 2024-11-01, page 97:


flameover

en-noun

flameover (countable and uncountable, plural flameovers)


hose jacket

(firefighting) A device that clamps around a burst or leaking portion of hose.


preconnect

It is impractical to calculate rate of flow at the time of the fire. If the fire compartment is larger than two standard preconnects can extinguish, or if the fuel load will create a fire situation beyond the control […]

2020, Bernard "Ben" J. Klaene, Thomas C. Lakamp, Structural Firefighting (page 84)

(firefighting) A hose with one end ready connected to a pump outlet.


firestream

The fireman on the right of the nozzle is the director of the firestream. Two firemen can handle all ordinary nozzle pressures […]

1934, Robert Bolton Rogers, The Standard Drill Manual (page 62)

(firefighting) The stream of water or foam used to extinguish a fire.


hose bridge

(firefighting) A device laid over a hose so that vehicles can pass over it without pinching or damaging it.


LACES

(firefighting) Acronym of lookouts, anchor points, communications, escape routes, safety zones.


flash fuel

(firefighting) Any natural forest material, such as grass or pine needles, that ignites easily and burns quickly.