Chapter 1

Question 1

Fire Officer I role

Answer 1

Supervising a single fire company or apparatus.

Question 2

Fire Officer II role

Answer 2

senior non-chief officer in a larger department sometimes responsible for a multi-unit station.

Question 3

Fire Officer III and IV role

Answer 3

Battalion or district chief up to positions in charge of major components of the fire department.

Question 4

NFPA standard for fire officers

Answer 4

1021- defines 4 levels of fire officer

Question 5

Fully volunteer departments

Answer 5

respond from outside the station or are capable of staffing a duty roster in smaller departments. Both are unpaid.

Question 6

Paid on call departments

Answer 6

paying for the individuals response to each alarm

Question 7

Combination deparment

Answer 7

Full time and Volunteer with the volunteer side used to supplement the paid staff

Question 8

Career department

Answer 8

full time paid personnel in place for higher risk and call volume.

Question 9

Percent of calls in 2011 that were medical emergencies in the US

Answer 9

66%

Question 10

Percent of calls in 2011 that were actual fires.

Answer 10

5%

Question 11

First community efforts to control fire

Answer 11

24 B C Roman Empire, Familia Publica- 600 slaves stationed around the city

Question 12

group of 7000 men adopted formal roman rank structure still used today

Answer 12

Corps of Vigiles in 60 AD

Question 13

First documented fire in North America

Answer 13

Jamestown VA in 1607

Question 14

First fire regulations in North America

Answer 14

1630 in Boston MA banning wood chimneys and thatched roofs.

Question 15

First organized volunteer fire company

Answer 15

Philadelphia in 1735 under Benjamin Franklin

Question 16

2 major fires in 1871 that significantly affected development of the fire service and fire codes.

Answer 16

1. Chicago- fire starts in a barn on Oct 8, 1871 and burns for 3 days destroying 17000 homes with 300 dead.
2. Peshtigo Wisconsin- tornado fire 1000 ft high and 5 miles wide destroys 2400 square miles of forest land and 2200 people died (deadliest fire in US history)

Question 17

results of the 2 major fires

Answer 17

water pumping systems, advances in firefighting equipment, improvements in communications and building codes.

Question 18

Fire equipment maturation

Answer 18

1720- hand powered pumpers
1829- steam powered pumpers
1900’s- machine powered pumpers
1817- first fire hydrants in New York city establishing a municipal water supply

Question 19

Communications in colonial times

Answer 19

fire warden or night watchmen patrolled and sounded an alarm
fire towers
community bell or church bells used to alert citizens

Question 20

major Comms advance in the 1850’s

Answer 20

public call boxes in Washington DC send coded signal to dispatch center.

Question 21

modern Comms

Answer 21

Cellular technology and CAD systems

two way radios

Question 22

building code maturization

Answer 22

1678- Boston requires tile or slate roofs
1814- DC prohibits wooden houses
-first codes are locally developed by communities and insurance companies
-modern codes developed nationally by agencies, insurances companies and committees of citizens with review boards