3. FIRE CODE 2008 - RA 9514 Flashcards
The industrial process of subjecting materials to heat for the purpose of removing solvents or moisture from the same, and/or to fuse certain chemical salts to form a uniform glazing the surface of materials being treated.
Industrial Baking And Drying
- A fire resistive door prescribed for openings in fire separation walls or partitions.
Fire Door
- The minimum temperature at which any material gives off vapor in sufficient concentration to form an ignitable mixture with air.
Flash Point
- Passageway from one building to another or through or around a wall in approximately the same floor level.
Horizontal Exit
- A continuous passageway for the transmission of air.
Duct System
Any liquid having a flash point at or above 37.8°C (100°F)
Combustible Liquid
The purpose for which a building or portion thereof is used or intended to be used.
Occupancy
Any person who acts as agent of the owner and manages the use of a building is referred to as the _____
Administrator
A piece of metal or an electrical conductor used to bypass a safety device in an electrical system.
Jumper
- Any act of manufacturing, fabrication, conversion, etc., that uses or produces materials which are likely to cause fires or explosions.
Hazardous Operation/Process
what decree was repealed by the act
PD 1185
- A finely powdered substance which when mixed with air in the proper proportion and ignited will cause an explosion.
Dust
A rocket or liquid propellant which consist of combinations of fuels and oxidizers which ignite spontaneously on contact with each other.
Hypergolic Fuel
Any plastic substance or compound having cellulose nitrate as base
‘Cellulose Nitrate Plastic’ (Pyroxylin)
The person who holds the legal right of possession or title to a building or real property.
Owner
A strong oxidizing organic compound which releases oxygen readily. It causes fire when in contact with combustible materials especially under conditions of high temperature.
Organic Peroxide
A normally open device installed inside an air duct system which automatically closes to restrict the passage of smoke or fire
Damper
Refers to design and installation of walls, barriers, doors, windows, vents, means of egress, etc. integral to and incorporated into a building or structure in order to minimize danger to life from fire, smoke, fumes or panic before the building is evacuated
Fire Safety Constructions
A kind of stable explosive compound which explodes by percussion.
Fulminate
Descriptive of any substance that ignites spontaneously when exposed to air.
Pyrophoric
any act that would remove or neutralize a fire hazard
abatement
A passage hall or antechamber between the outer doors and the interior parts of a house orbuilding.
Vestibule
Materials used as final coating of a surface for ornamental or protective purposes.
Finishes
The portion of a roadway or publicway that should be kept opened and unobstructed at all times for the expedient operation of fire fighting units.
Fire Lane
A process where a piece of metal is heated prior to changing its shape or dimensions.
Forging
- Any condition or act which increases or may cause an increase in the probability of the occurrence of fire or which may obstruct safeguarding of life and property.
Fire Hazard
Any material or mixture consisting of a fuel and oxidizer used to set off explosives
Blasting Agent
- A material that readily yields oxygen in quantities sufficient to stimulate or support combustion.
Oxidizing Material
Descriptive of materials that are easily set on fire (3)
Combustible, Flammable or Inflammable
These features are also designed to achieve, among others, safe and rapid evacuation of people through means of egress sealed from smoke or fire, the confinement of fire or smoke in the room or floor of origin and delay their spread to other parts of the building by means of smoke sealed and fire resistant doors, walls and floors. It shall also mean to include the treatment of buildings components or contents with flame retardant chemicals.
Fire Safety Constructions
- Automatic closing doors that are designed to confine smoke and heat and delay thespread of fire.
Self-Closing Doors
- A process where impurities and/or deleterious materials are removed from a mixture in order toproduce a pure element of compound. It shall also refer to partial distillation and electrolysis.
Refining
- An enclosed vertical space of passage that extends from floor to floor, as well as from the base to the top of the building.
Vertical Shaft
What policy does the State promote through the Revised Fire Code?
Public safety economic development through fire prevention and suppression
A cylindrical device turning on an axis around which a fire hose is wound and connected.
Hose Reel
- Type or burner where the fuel is subjected to pressure prior to discharge into the combustion chamber and/or which includes fans or other provisions for the introduction of air at above normal atmosphere pressure into the same combustion chamber.
Pressurized Or Forced Draft Burning Equipment
The process of first raising the temperature in separate the more volatile from the less volatile parts and then cooling and condensing the resulting vapor so as to produce a nearly purified substance.
Distillation
A liquid which causes fire when in contact with organic matter or certain chemicals
Corrosive Liquid
- The use of one or more electrical appliances or devices which draw or consume electrical current beyond the designed capacity of the existing electrical system.
Overloading
- The active principle of burning characterized by the heat and light of combustion.
Fire
- An integrated network of hydraulically designed piping installed in a building, structure or area with outlets arranged in a systematic pattern which automatically discharges water when activated by heat or combustion products from a fire.
Sprinkler System
- A system of vertical pipes in a building to which fire hoses can be attached on each floor, including a system by which water is made available to the outlets as needed.
Standpipe System
A vertical panel of non-combustible or fire resistive materials that divides the underside of the roof
Curtain Board
Any visual or audible signal produced by a device or system to warm the occupants of the building or fire fighting elements of the presence or danger of fire to enable them to undertake immediate action to save life and property and to suppress the fire.
Fire alarm
Any readily ignitable and free burning fiber such as cotton, oakum, rags, waste cloth, waste paper, kapok, hay, straw, Spanish moss, excelsior and other similar materials commonly used incommerce.
‘Combustible Fiber’
A highly combustible and explosive compound produced by the reaction of nitric acid with cellulose material
‘Cellulose Nitrate’ or
‘Nitro Cellulose’
- A building unsafe in case of fire because it will burn easily or because it lacks adequate exits or fire escapes.
Fire Trap
- Any device intended for the protection of buildings or persons to include but not limited to built-in protection system such as sprinklers and other automatic extinguishing protective equipment such as fire blankets helmets or worn by persons to protect themselves during fire.
Fire Protective And Fire Safety Device
A box or cabinet where fire hoses, valves and other equipment are stored and arranged for firefighting.
Hose Box
What is the official title of Republic Act No. 9514?
xRevised Fire Code of the Philippines of 2008
Any person actually occupying and using a building or portions thereof by virtue of a lease contract with the owner or administrator or by permission or sufferance of the latter.
Occupant
- A hot piece or lump that remains after a material has partially burned and is still oxidizing without the manifestation of flames.
EmbeR
revised fire code of the philippines of 2008 is also known as
RA 9514
- Melting or fusing of metallic ores or compounds so as to separate impurities from pure metals.
Smelting
Fill in the blank: A material described as ____________ produces a rapid drop in temperature of the immediate surroundings due to its nature or as a result of its reaction with other elements produces a rapid drop in temperature of the immediate surroundings
‘Cryogenic’
- Any street, alley or other strip of land unobstructed from the ground to the sky, deeded, dedicated or otherwise permanently appropriated for public use.
Public Way
- Any building or structure where fifty (50) or more people congregate, gather, or assemble for any purpose.
Public Assembly Building
- An extremely hot luminous bridge formed by passage of an electric current across a space between two conductors or terminals due to the incandescence of the conducting vapor.
Electrical Arc
speaker of HR
pres of senate
sec of HR
sec of senate
P.C NOGRALES
M. VILLAR
M.B. BARUA-YAP
E. LIRIO-REYES
president
GMA
approved
DEC 19, 2008
NUMBER OF SECTIONS
17
T OR F: The provisions of the Fire Code shall apply to all persons and all private and public buildings, facilities or structures erected or constructed only after its effectivity.
F: includes structures even before its effectivity
the fire code is administered and enforced by ______ through the hierarchy of organization as provided for in _____
BFP [under direct supervision of its chief] Chapter VI of Republic Act No. 6975.
authorize the series of actions made by the BFP
DILG
T OR F: The BFP may enter into external party agreements for the conduct of training, education and evaluation of fire volunteers, practitioners and fire volunteer organizations, which shall be under the full control and supervision of the BFP: Provided, however , That during firefighting operations, fire volunteer organizations shall be [independent] of the fire ground commanders of the BFP;
F: under the direct operational control
shall not be issued without securing a Fire Safety InspectionCertification (FSIC) from the Chief, BFP, or his/her duly authorized representative (2)
occupancy permit, business or permit to operate
No occupancy permit, business or permit to operate shall be issued without securing a _________ from the Chief, BFP, or his/her duly authorized representative;
Fire Safety Inspection Certification (FSIC)
T or F: Technical staff of BFP may be drawn not only from the organic members of the BFP and other government offices and agencies, but also from other sources.
T
shall be conducted by the Chief, BFP or his duly authorized representative as prerequisite to the grants of permits and/or licenses by local governments and other government agencies concerned
fire safety inspection [inspection requirement]
shall study, review and evaluate latest developments and standards on fire technology; prepare plans/programs on fire safety, prevention and suppression and evaluate implementation thereof; develop programs on the professionalization of the fire service…
technical staff
Fire Safety measures shall be required for the following hazardous operation/processes (8)
(1) welding or soldering; (2) industrial baking and drying; (3) waste disposal; (4) pressurized/forced-draft burning equipment; (5) smelting and forging; (6) motion picture projection using electrical arc lamps; (7) refining, distillation and solvent extraction; and (8) such other operations or processes as may hereafter be prescribed in the Rules and Regulations.
shall be required for the manufacture, storage, handling and/or use of hazardous materials
Fire safety measures
t or F: Obstructing or blocking the exit ways or across to buildings is prohibited under sec 8 of the code for clearly marked for fire safety purposes, such as but not limited to aisles in interior rooms, any part of stairways, hallways, corridors, vestibules, balconies or bridges leading to a stairway or exit of any kind, or tolerating or allowing said violations
T
T or F: Use of fire protective of fire fighting equipment of the fire service other than for fire fighting except in other emergencies where their use are justified is un prohibited
T
upon the report that a violation of this Code or other pertinent laws, rules and regulations is being committed, the ________ shall issue notice/order to comply to the owner, administrator, occupant or other person responsible for the condition of the building or structure
TheChief, BFP or his/her duly authorized representative
the period within which compliance (abatement) shall be effected, which shall be within ____ to ____ after the receipt of the notice/order, depending on the reasonableness to adequately comply with the same.
10-15 days
after the lapse of the aforesaid period, the Chief, BFP or his/her authorized representative shall put up a sign in front of the building or structure that it is fire hazard. the notice shall bear these words _____
“WARNING: THIS BUILDING/STRUCTURE IS AFIRE HAZARD”, shall remain posted until such time that the owner abate at the time no more than 15 days after the lapse
If the assessed value of the nuisance or the amount to be spent in abating the same is not more than One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00), the owner, administrator or occupant thereof shall abate the hazard within _______, or if the assessed value is more than One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00), within _______ from receipt of the order declaring said building or structure a ________; otherwise, the Chief, BFP or his/her duly authorized representative shall forth with cause its _________.
fifteen (15) days
thirty (30) days
public nuisance
summary abatement
failure to comply within___________ from the receipt of the notice shall cause the Chief, BFP or his/her duly authorized representative to put up a sign in front of the building or structure, at or near the entrance of such premises, notifying the public that such building or structure is a _______, which shall remain until the owner, administrator, occupant or other person responsible for the condition of the building, structure and their premises or facilities abate the same within the specified period.
five (5) days
“FIRETRAP”
shall mean all corrective measures undertaken to abate hazards which shall include, but not limited to remodeling, repairing, strengthening, reconstructing, removal and demolition, either partial or total, of the building or structure.
summary abatement
The expenses incurred by the government for such summary abatement shall be borne by the _____________.
owner, administrator or occupant
If the owner, administrator or occupant fails to reimburse the government of the expenses incurred in the summary abatement within __________ from the completion of such abatement, the building or structure shall be sold at public auction in accordance with existing laws and rules.
(90) days
__________- In case of willful failure to correct the deficiency or abate the fire hazard as provided in the preceding subsection, the violator shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment of not less than _________ nor more than, or by a fine of not more than ____________ or both such fine and imprisonment
Punitive
six (6) months
six (6) years
One hundred thousand(P100,000.00) pesos
Any person who violates any provision of the Fire Code or any of the rules and regulations promulgated under this Act shall be penalized by an ____________ of not exceeding _________ or in the proper case, by stoppage of operations or by closure of such buildings, structures and their premises or facilities which do not comply with the requirements orby both such administrative fine and closure/stoppage of operation to be imposed by the Chief, BFP.
administrative fine
Fifty thousand (P50,000.00) pesos
Any person who, without authority, maliciously removes the sign that a building or structure is a fire hazard/firetrap placed by the authorized person in this Code shall be liable for imprisonment for _________ or a fine not exceeding _____________ or both in the discretion of the court.
thirty(30) days
One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00)
Any person, who disobeys the lawful order of the fire ground commander during a firefighting operation shall be penalized with imprisonment of ______ to _________ and a fine of ________
1-30 days
P5,000.00
All taxes, fees and fines provided in this Code, shall be collected by the BFP. Provided, That __________ of such collection shall be set aside and retained for use by the city or municipal government concerned, which shall appropriate the same exclusive for the use of the operation and maintenance of its local fire station, including the construction and repair of fire station: Provided, further, That the remaining ___________ shall be remitted to the National Treasury under a trust fund assigned for the modernization of the BFP.
twenty percent (20%), municipal govt
eighty percent (80%), National treasury for BFP modernization
The assessment of fire code taxes, fees and fines is vested upon _______. The BFP shall, subject to the approval of the ________, prescribe the procedural rules for such purpose.
the BFP DILG
The Chief, BFP is authorized, subject to the approval of the _________, to use the income generated under the Fire Code for procurement of fire protection and fire fighting investigation, rescue, paramedics, supplies and materials, and related technical services necessary for the fire service and the improvement of facilities of the Bureau of Fire Protection and abatement of fire hazards.
Secretary of the Interior and Local Government
_____ shall determine the optimal number of equipment, including, but not limited to , fire trucks and fire hydrants, required by every local government unit for the proper delivery of fire protection services in its jurisdiction.
The BFP
In the procurement of fire fighting and investigation supplies and materials, the _____________________ shall evaluate, determine and certify if the supply to procured conforms to the product standards fixed by the BFP. For this purpose, the BFP shall submit to the Bureau a detailed set of product standards that must be complied with in the procurement of fire fighting and investigation supplies and materials within _____________ from the effectivity of this act.
Bureau of Product Standards of the Department of Trade and Industry
six (6) months
Within sixty (60) days from the effectivity of this Act, the ____________ shall issue the rules and regulations for its effective implementation.
Secretary of the Interior and Local Government
begun and held when and where?
metro manila, july 28, 2008
