Does firefighters us math

Answer 1

Some examples of "Fireman Mathematics" are:

* Calculating volumes required for the air they breathe in SCBA

* Calculating the water/foaming agent ratios

* Estimating heights, distances and volumes * Determining manpower and other logistic requirements * Estimating evacuation zone distances. A fundamental use of mathematics that confronts all firefighters is fire fighting hydraulics. It's a foundational area of knowledge that all uniformed fire fighters must have a handle on. Calculating water delivery rates, hose capacities and such can drive the fire fighter who is less than adept at math up a wall. Additionally, you can readily see that a fire fighter who does not comprehend the subtleties of moving and delivering water will be much less effective on the fire ground.

Answer 2

Tricky question........

1. What speed do the firefighters need to go to:

A. Get the on time to save the pplz :O

B. Not endanger the drivers in front of the fire truck

C. Be able to turn safely bu still make it

2. Angles that the firefighters need to shoot at the flames to score

There's probably a lot more but I'm sorta tired so not gonna try :P

I bet your one of the people who wonder "I wanna be a firefighter, why do I need math?!"

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While the answers above hint at the complexity of fire service mathematics, the range of fire service applications involving math is much more diverse.

At it's most simplistic application, firefighters establish ratios of officers (supervisors) to firefighters, number of personnel required to be equipped outside of a structure for each firefighter inside a structure, and totals for incident responses, inspections performed, etc.

As personnel advance in the fire service, their expected level of mathematic competency increases. Driver/operators are expected to be able to determine the amount of water necessary to suppress the fire, the amount of water their apparatus is flowing versus it's capacity, the time until their tank is empty of water, the amount of water in use relative to the available supply, the amount of friction lost as the water courses through the hose, the resulting pressure at the nozzle relative to the optimal pressure for a perfect nozzle pattern, etc. They may also have to calculate the variation in pump pressure necessary to overcome gravity in a multi-story building, the stopping distance of their apparatus, the weight of firefighters and victims a ladder will support at a given angle, and many, many more related concepts.

fire service administrators use math to calculate optimized response routes, fire station placement, and staffing patterns.

Fire protection engineers use calculus to design fire sprinkler systems, predict fire growth, design buildings to minimize fire spread, etc.

Investigators might calculate the energy release of building contents when attempting to determine fire cause and spread, time intervals when documenting official reports, etc.

While the level of math proficiency required of entry level firefighters rarely exceeds multiplication and division, persons expecting to advance in a progressive fire department should plan to minimally develop a mastery of basic algebra.

You Have to know when the fire will wear off....

Answer 3

These are just a few mathematical calculations a firefighter may use on the job:

Determine how much water is needed to extinguish a fire in a particular sized area. (Fire Flow calculation)

Determine the amount to water that will convert to steam in a give area. (steam converstion calculation)

Determine the amount of pressure that is lost as water passes through a length of hose. (friction loss calculation)

Answer 4

With math, you can calculate how many mitnutes it will take till you've consumed all the water from your car. You can tell how much water a hydrant will give in a minute and how many hoses you can operate with it.

Firefighers with breathing protection (the ones with the oxygen flask) need to know how much air they will need to come back, so they do the math with their manometer.

Answer 5

You need to know how to carry out tests of homogeneity and independence. Also, know your degrees of freedom equations.

Answer 6

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