NVIC 08-14 Task 3.5.A

Fight and extinguish fires.

FF-X2.2 Fire fighting equipment and its location on board: .5 fire fighting methods

When told the name of each of the 2 strategies of fire fighting and asked on a written examination to describe their objective,

the candidate describes (or selects the answer that describes) the objectives of the 2 strategies of fire fighting.

The candidate describes (or selects the answer that describes) the 2 strategies of fire fighting by stating the descriptive phrases for each method:

1. Defensive – objective is confinement, accomplished by doing closures, and boundary cooling; and
2. Offensive - objective is extinguishment, accomplished by applying extinguishing agent(s) onto the fire.