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Exercise 4. Translate into English.

Exercise 3. Answer the questions.

1. What are portable fire extinguishers designed for?

2. Why is the use of portable extinguishers important?

3. What can happen if a portable extinguisher is used by untrained persons?

4. Why is the wrong extinguisher can be even worse than no extinguisher at all?

5. Which factors should be considered for selecting an extinguisher?

6. What types of extinguishers do you know?

7. What are the peculiarities of water type extinguishers?

8. What Class fires are foam extinguishers used for?

9. Which fire extinguisher is more suitable for delicate equipment – foam, dry

chemical, or Halon?

10. What can you tell us about Class D extinguishers?

11. Which type of fire extinguisher is the most suitable for Class K fires?

1. Портативные огнетушители в основном используются для тушения небольших пожаров в начальной стадии.

2. Портативные огнетушители применяются по двум причинам.

3. Если человек не подготовлен, то огнетушитель может быть неэффективным или даже опасным.

4. Применение огнетушителя требует практики.

5. В наши дни имеется в наличии много типов огнетушителей.

6. Существует несколько факторов при выборе огнетушителя.

7. Тип огнетушителя зависит от огнетушащего вещества, которое содержится в огнетушителе.

8. Пенные огнетушители применяются при пожарах класса Б.

9. Огнетушители класса Д эффективны при тушении горючих металлов.

10. Огнетушители класса К – необходимая вещь на кухне.

1. aerial ladder

2. affect

3. amount

4. anticipate

5. assorted equipment

6. be concerned about

7. bolt cutter

8. booster hose

9. booster tank

10. breakdown

11. chamber

12. chemical apparatus

13. claw tool

14. compartment

15. compartment storage place

16. complement

17. confine

18. controls

19. cross-country vehicle

20. crowbar

21. delay

22. demand

23. determine

24. discharge outlet

25. do physical harm

26. double-force pump = “siphona”

27. draft water

28. draw water

29. elevating platform

30. eliminate

31. engine company

32. expel gas

33. extension ladder

34. failure

35. fire engine

36. first aid kit

37. flammable substances

38. forcible entry tools

39. gasoline-powered

40. gauge

41. gear

42. grappling hook

43. ground ladders

44. hand crank (handle)

45. hose bed

46. hose clamp

47. hose handler

48. hose line

49. hydrant wrench

50. improve

51. jack

52. life net

53. lifesaving

54. main feature

55. manpower

56. manually-raised

57. mounted

58. NFPA

59. nozzle

60. optional

61. outlet valve

62. overlap

63. oxyacetylene torch

64. portable water monitor

65. pre-connected

66. pressure

67. pump pressure

68. pumper

69. pumping capacity

70. rated capacity

71. reel

72. reject

73. reliable

74. reveal

75. roof ladder

76. salvage

77. search and rescue

78. self-propelled

79. set

80. shift

81. smoldering

82. spanner wrench

83. spring

84. squirt water

85. standpipe

86. steam fire engine = steamer

87. steer

88. straight ladder

89. suction hose

90. transfer

91. transition

92. ultimate

93. valve

94. volume

95. wildfire

1. Who was credited with creating the first hand fire pump? What was the first fire pump like?

2. When was the first fire engine invented? What was the first fire engine like?

3. What is General Jan van der Heijden famous for?

4. What made engineers improve ladders?

5. How were the first aerial ladders raised?

6. What was the first chemical apparatus like?

7. Why was the transition from the steamer to the gasoline-powered engine hard?

8. What is the primary purpose of the pumper?

9. What are standard pumpers equipped with?

10. What are rated capacities of standard pumpers?

11. What kind of equipment and tools is required on the pumper?

12. What kind of ladders does a standard ladder truck carry?

13. What equipment does NFPA Standard’s list include?

14. What are portable fire extinguishers designed for?

15. What types of extinguishers do you know?

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