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You are the first to arrive on the scene of a motor-vehicle collision. Your scene size-up reveals a tanker truck on its side with an unresponsive driver in the cab. Multiple bystanders are around the cab waving for you to come over and help the driver. Your immediate action should be to:
 
  A) order the bystanders away from the truck.
  B) assess and extricate the patient.
  C) determine what material the truck is carrying.
  D) make certain the tanker is not leaking.

Question 2

You have arrived on the scene where a tractor trailer has overturned. As you pull onto the scene, the driver of the truck approaches and informs you that he is hauling radioactive medical wastes and warns you that there is a car underneath the overturned trailer. Which one of the following should you do immediately?
 
  A) Attempt to identify the material and type of rays being emitted.
  B) Determine if any radioactive material has been released.
  C) Position the ambulance in front of the vehicle to block oncoming traffic.
  D) Move the ambulance upwind of the scene.



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

D



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