Chap 12 Multiple- Family Dwellings

Question 1

These dwellings are occupancies that house three or more families and come in all shapes and sizes. These buildings have complex layouts that present serious life safety risk to fire fighters.

Answer 1

Multiple-family dwellings

Question 2

Effective and of the response area are critical components when applying fire ground strategies and tactics.

Answer 2

Preplanning and knowledge

Question 3

In large, multi-family dwellings, where should the accountability officer be placed?

Answer 3

At entry points

Question 4

General priorities for a multiple-floor search include:

Answer 4

• Fire floor
• Floor above the fire
• Top Floor
• The rest of the building.

Question 5

Form of isolation that provides a level of protection while leaving people in place, usually homes or unaffected areas of large buildings.

Answer 5

Shelter-in-place

Question 6

Possible avenues of fire extension in Older multifamily apartment dwellings.

Answer 6

• Pipe Recess
• Utility shafts
• Air/light shafts
• Dumbwaiter shafts
• Renovation /alterations
  
  • autoextension from floor to floor

Question 7

For basement fires in multifamily dwellings it is important that the house line is stretch where and why?

Answer 7

Front door to the cellar stairs to protect the interior hall for occupants who are trying to evacuate.

Question 8

Getting the between the buildings occupants and the fire may save more lives than trying to perform multiple rescues.

Answer 8

Initial hose line

Question 9

Ways to get to the roof of an old apartment multiple dwelling? What must you do one you made it to the roof?

Answer 9

Adjoining building or aerial.

Must avoid interior stairs.

Ventilate by opening bulkhead/scuttle

Question 10

These can be accomplished by vertical ventilation

Answer 10

• Relieves upper portions of heat and smoke
• allows for a thorough search above the fire floor
• Creates a vertical flue for smoke and heat removal
• limits horizontal fire spread
• Increases victims chances of survival.

Question 11

How should a double hung window be opened during horizontal ventilation?

Answer 11

Two thirds at the top, one third at the bottom

Question 12

Biggest structural difference in newer apartment buildings?

Answer 12

Introduction of unprotected steel I beams

Question 13

The component of a building that connects two wings.

Answer 13

Throat

Question 14

What are newer apartments interior stairways constructed with?

Answer 14

Fire resistive materials ( metal threads with marble stairs and landings) surrounded by fire resistive walls.

Question 15

The extensive use of these allows a path of fire travel in newer apartments.

Answer 15

Steel I beams

Question 16

One 50 foot length of hose stretched through the well of stair way can reach how far?

Answer 16

5 floors

Question 17

A cut for ventilating a confined in which the cut is the entire distance of the roof; useful in confining a fire in a cockloft that is spreading horizontally.

Answer 17

Trench cut

Question 18

When ventilating newer apartment buildings, fire fighters can pull ceilings on top floor to examine cockloft, if fire is in the cock loft what must be done?

Answer 18

Roof cutting should begin immediately.

Question 19

Using an elevator to reach fire floor is not recommended practice, however, if one must be used where should you stop?

Answer 19

At least two floors below the fire floor and take the stairs the rest of the way.

Question 20

What floor should you hook up to a standpipe?

Answer 20

At least floor below fire.

Question 21

Where should the back up line be hooked up to?

Answer 21

At least two floors below fire floor in the same stairway.

Question 22

General Concern in row frame building fires.

Answer 22

Rapidity with which fire spreads and the great potential of structural collapse

Question 23

Best way to get to the roof on Row houses.

Answer 23

The use of aerials.

Question 24

What may be necessary to fire in common cocklofts of row houses?

Answer 24

Trench cut a few buildings down to stop the spread.

Question 25

These were built in the 1800s and early 1900s, similar to row houses but have noncombustible exterior and brick walls separate each buildings and extend through the cockloft.

Answer 25

Brownstone Multifamily

Question 26

These dwellings have landscaped gardens and create access to buildings difficult for fire fighters?

Answer 26

Garden apartments.