Chap 1

Question 1

What is the 1972 landmark report titled ?

Answer 1

America Burning

Question 2

What was created in 1970 in NASA to alert spacecrafts?

Answer 2

The smoke alarm

Question 3

What are the 5 interrelated integrated prevention interventions?

Answer 3

Education , economic incentives, engineering, enforcement, & emergency response

Question 4

What is the risk watch ?

Answer 4

Created in the 90s focusing on young children under 5 , older adults and people with disabilities

Question 5

What is solutions 2000?

Answer 5

The national fire academy created a curriculum to help educators address risk among those at highest risk from fire

Question 6

Who does CERT work together with?

Answer 6

Volunteer groups such as Fire Corps and citizen corps

Question 7

1942 fire?

Answer 7

Coconut grove nightclub with 492 deaths caused by overcrowding , interior finish , and lack of exits

Question 8

1958 fire?

Answer 8

Our ladies of Angels school with 95 deaths due to storage of combustibles , lack of teacher training and lack of fire drills

Question 9

1977 fire?

Answer 9

Beverly Hills supper club with 165 deaths due to lack of evacuation and planning practice , early detection and difficulty exiting

Question 10

1980 fire?

Answer 10

MGM Grand Hotel with 85 deaths due to smoke travel in high rise , evacuation from high rise

Question 11

2003 fire?

Answer 11

Station nightclub with 100 deaths due to improper use of pyrotechnics, combustibles , suppression equipment , EAP and no training in emergencies

Question 12

What is the US Consumer Product Safety Commision?

Answer 12

Focused, fire, safety research dollars in areas such as flammability standards and smoke alarm technology 

Question 13

Center of disease control, and prevention?

Answer 13

National center for injury prevention and control studies, injury, causation, and helps fund strategies to reduce the occurrence of preventable incidents 

Question 14

What is the Home Safety Council?

Answer 14

Created in 2007 teamed with the center of injury research and policy to conduct a study on fire and life safety education

Question 15

What is NFPA 1035?

Answer 15

 Sets the standards for Fire and life safety educators, public information officers and juvenile Fire sitter intervention specialists 

Question 16

What is a catalyst?

Answer 16

They are behind every successful risk reduction effort with the desire and ambition to reduce preventable injuries