Chapter 1 - Historic Fires Etc

Question 1

An event over which people have little or no control; random, uncontrollable acts of fate.

Answer 1

Accident

Question 2

Changes to achieve safer behavior due to the deliberate actions taken by participants.

Answer 2

Active Solutions

Question 3

Programs, actions and services used by a community, which prevent or mitigate the loss of life, property, and resources associated with life safety, fire, and other disaster within a community.

Answer 3

Community Risk Reduction

Question 4

The assumption that it is not necessary to take action because others in the vicinity will take care of the situation.

Answer 4

Dissolution of Responsibility

Question 5

Monetary rewards or threats used to motive improved compliance and safer behaviors.

Answer 5

Economic Incentives

Question 6

The process of preventing or altering specific unsafe behaviors through raising awareness and imparting in formation and knowledge to change attitudes and produce safer behaviors.

Answer 6

Education

Question 7

Having well trained and adequately staffed teams of first responders for risk reduction during later stages of risk development when other interventions have failed.

Answer 7

Emergency Response

Question 8

The creation and adoption of codes, ordinances, and requirements for compliance to ensure that people, structures, and associated systems adhere to the safest practices.

Answer 8

Enforcement

Question 9

A form of intervention used to change structures, products, and processes through the use of improved technology, materials, construction, and environmental change to provide a greater level of safety for property and occupants.

Answer 9

Engineering

Question 10

The process wherein occupants become aware of a building fire-related emergency and experience a variety of mental processes and actions before or while they travel to reach a place of safety within or outside the building.

Answer 10

Evacuation

Question 11

Any unintentional or intentional damage to the body resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essential as heat or oxygen.

Answer 11

Injury

Question 12

A process in which, when conditions (such as emergency exit signs) are repeatedly encountered in the workplace or elsewhere, people learn to ignore them.

Answer 12

Learned Irrelevance

Question 13

A fear-induced flight behavior that is not rational, non adaptive, and non social, which serves to reduce the escape possibilities of the groups as a whole.

Answer 13

Panic

Question 14

Changes to achieve safer environments though design and engineering solutions.

Answer 14

Passive Solutions

Question 15

The time between the recognition of the cue to the moment the occupants begin to evacuate.

Answer 15

Pre-Movement Time

Question 16

Efforts focused on stopping an injury before it occurs.

Answer 16

Primary Prevention

Question 17

Efforts implemented to reduce the seriousness of an injury once it has occurred.

Answer 17

Secondary Prevention

Question 18

As the result of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire this law was passed, which ordered the creation of a separate fire prevention bureau in the fire departments of New York.

Answer 18

Sullivan-Howey Law

Question 19

Medical treatment and rehabilitation to reduce the disability immediately after an injury occurs

Answer 19

Tertiary Prevention

Question 20

Injury occurring by causes with intent, such as motor vehicle and bicycle crashes, drowning, burns, suffocation’s and strangulations, or falls.

Answer 20

Unintentional injury

Question 21

What is the term for the behavior exhibited when conditions, such as emergency exit signs, are repeatedly encountered and occupants ignore them?

Answer 21

Learned Irrelevance

Question 22

What national program was introduced in 1998 with the goal of integrating interactive injury prevention lessons with the school curriculum for children ages 3-14 year?

Answer 22

Risk Watch

Question 23

Which if the following “Three Es of Prevention” is the creation and adoption of codes, ordinances, and requirements for compliance?

Answer 23

Enforcement

Question 24

Which of the following fires was the real precursor for today’s National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101 - Life Safety Code?

Answer 24

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Question 25

Any unintentional or intentional damage to the body resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as heat or oxygen is known as a(n)

Answer 25

Injury

Question 26

Which of the following phases of injury prevention involves medical treatment and rehabilitation to reduce the disability immediately after an injury occurs?

Answer 26

Tertiary Prevention

Question 27

Which of the following phases of injury prevention involves efforts focused on stopping an injury before it occurs?

Answer 27

Primary Prevention

Question 28

What time between the recognition of the cue that an emergency is occurring to the moment that the occupants actually begin to evacuate is known as

Answer 28

Pre-movement time

Question 29

The Center for Disease Control recommends that residential pools have a fence be at least:

Answer 29

4 Feet Tall

Question 30

Which type of burn is cared for by applying water to cool the area?

Answer 30

Thermal

Question 31

Which of the following “Three Es of Prevention” is an intervention used to change structures, products, and processes through the use of technology, materials, constriction, and environmental changes?

Answer 31

Engineering

Question 32

Which of the following fires has the distinction of being America’s works singe building fire, with 602 fatalities?

Answer 32

Iroquois Theater Fire

Question 33

What year was the “Everyone Goes Home Program/ and the “16 Fire Fighter Life Safety Initiatives” created?

Answer 33

2004

Question 34

The process wherein occupants become aware of a fire related emergency within the building and experience a variety of mental processes and actions before and while they travel too reach a place of safety within or outside the building is known as:

Answer 34

Evacuation

Question 35

In what year were Boston, Mass building codes changed to requires more fire-resistive building materials?

Answer 35

1679

Question 36

Which of the following “Three Es of Prevention” is the process of preventing or altering specific unsafe attitudes, behaviors, and conditions?

Answer 36

Education

Question 37

Which of the following fires has its anniversary marked by Fire Prevention Week?

Answer 37

The Great Chicago Fire

Question 38

Which is the first step of the community risk reduction process?

Answer 38

Identify Risks

Question 39

_____ is a comprehensive all-hazards unifying approach that includes programs, actions, and services used by a community, which prevent or reduce the impact of fire, injuries, and other disaster within a community.

Answer 39

Community Risk Reduction

Question 40

Which of the following is the leading cause of death for people between 1 and 44 years of age?

Answer 40

Motor Vehicle Crashes

Question 41

What type of burn is cared for by applying water to cool the area?

Answer 41

Thermal