Chapter 1 - Historic Fires Etc Flashcards
An event over which people have little or no control; random, uncontrollable acts of fate.
Accident
Changes to achieve safer behavior due to the deliberate actions taken by participants.
Active Solutions
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.
Community Risk Reduction
The assumption that it is not necessary to take action because others in the vicinity will take care of the situation.
Dissolution of Responsibility
Monetary rewards or threats used to motive improved compliance and safer behaviors.
Economic Incentives
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.
Education
Having well trained and adequately staffed teams of first responders for risk reduction during later stages of risk development when other interventions have failed.
Emergency Response
The creation and adoption of codes, ordinances, and requirements for compliance to ensure that people, structures, and associated systems adhere to the safest practices.
Enforcement
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.
Engineering
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.
Evacuation
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.
Injury
A process in which, when conditions (such as emergency exit signs) are repeatedly encountered in the workplace or elsewhere, people learn to ignore them.
Learned Irrelevance
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.
Panic
Changes to achieve safer environments though design and engineering solutions.
Passive Solutions
The time between the recognition of the cue to the moment the occupants begin to evacuate.
Pre-Movement Time
Efforts focused on stopping an injury before it occurs.
Primary Prevention
Efforts implemented to reduce the seriousness of an injury once it has occurred.
Secondary Prevention
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.
Sullivan-Howey Law
Medical treatment and rehabilitation to reduce the disability immediately after an injury occurs
Tertiary Prevention
Injury occurring by causes with intent, such as motor vehicle and bicycle crashes, drowning, burns, suffocation’s and strangulations, or falls.
Unintentional injury
What is the term for the behavior exhibited when conditions, such as emergency exit signs, are repeatedly encountered and occupants ignore them?
Learned Irrelevance
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?
Risk Watch
Which if the following “Three Es of Prevention” is the creation and adoption of codes, ordinances, and requirements for compliance?
Enforcement
Which of the following fires was the real precursor for today’s National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101 - Life Safety Code?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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)
Injury
Which of the following phases of injury prevention involves medical treatment and rehabilitation to reduce the disability immediately after an injury occurs?
Tertiary Prevention
Which of the following phases of injury prevention involves efforts focused on stopping an injury before it occurs?
Primary Prevention
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
Pre-movement time
The Center for Disease Control recommends that residential pools have a fence be at least:
4 Feet Tall
Which type of burn is cared for by applying water to cool the area?
Thermal
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?
Engineering
Which of the following fires has the distinction of being America’s works singe building fire, with 602 fatalities?
Iroquois Theater Fire
What year was the “Everyone Goes Home Program/ and the “16 Fire Fighter Life Safety Initiatives” created?
2004
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:
Evacuation
In what year were Boston, Mass building codes changed to requires more fire-resistive building materials?
1679
Which of the following “Three Es of Prevention” is the process of preventing or altering specific unsafe attitudes, behaviors, and conditions?
Education
Which of the following fires has its anniversary marked by Fire Prevention Week?
The Great Chicago Fire
Which is the first step of the community risk reduction process?
Identify Risks
_____ 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.
Community Risk Reduction
Which of the following is the leading cause of death for people between 1 and 44 years of age?
Motor Vehicle Crashes
What type of burn is cared for by applying water to cool the area?
Thermal
