Chapter 10 Flashcards
These are conducted to assist firefighting operations should there ever be an incident at the building or facility
Code enforcement inspections
Preincident survey
Preincident survey
These aim to ensure that buildings are up to code and therefore less likely to be at risk for fires or other hazards
Preincident surveys
Code enforcement inspections
Code enforcement inspections
What is a reason that Preincident surveys should not be done alongside inspections
Preincident surveys require cooperation
People may not be as cooperative during inspections
Information a company officer can provide to facility owners/occupants can provide the type and size of the _____ that is appropriate for the occupancy
Fire extinguisher
First aid kit
Standpipes
First aid kit
Who is responsible for ensuring that buildings and facilities are inspected
Fire chief
Asst chief
Company officer
Fire chief
Most fire codes require each building or facility to be inspected at least
Once per year
Every other year
Twice per year
Once each year
When conducting fire and life safety inspections, officers must identify hazardous conditions that might cause fire or contribute to its spread and identify conditions that might
Impede egress during emergency
Block extinguishing agents
Block traffic
Impede the occupants egress from the structure in an emergency
When a violation has been reported to the occupant and the required corrective action has been explained, a written notice that includes ____ will be issued
reason for warning
How to resolve the issue
Date and time of follow up reinspection
Date and time of follow up reinspection
One of the best information sources about an occupancy is
The blue prints
Information from tax assessor
Record of previous inspections and incident reports
The record of previous inspections and incident reports
The most specific and authoritative information sources about any particular occupancy class or type are the ________ adopted by the jurisdiction
Nfpa
Osha
Model building and fire codes
Life safety codes
Model building and fire codes
What is an inspections primary concern?
Fire hazards
Life safety
Building components
Hazmat
Life safety
The most important consideration is to ensure that the inspection is done in a way that results in
Building trust in the community
The inspection of every compartment in the building
Maintaining good relations
The inspection of every compartment within the building
What is the single most important life safety item to be inspected?
Sprinkler systems
Means of egress from the building
Fire extinguishers
Means of egress from the building
The three parts that means of egress consist of
Interior, gate, and exterior
Building, doors, warnings
Access to the exit, the exit itself, and the exit discharge
Access to the exit, the exit itself, and the exit discharge
Six specific general fire and life safety items that must be inspected at all occupancy include (means of egress, Fire protection, storage, waste management, housekeeping, and ___
Processes
When regarding water supply systems, the inspector or company level personnel will not determine the systems adequacy. They will only determine
The flow in GPM
How well it is maintained
How to operate it
How well it is maintained
In addition to being visible and well signed unblocked and unobstructed, fire extinguishers should be placed where
Where people can read the instructions
Where management can handle them
Near points of egress or ingress and in normal paths of travel
Near points of egress, or ingress, and in normal paths of travel
The process of gathering, and evaluating information, providing information that can be used to formulate plans, and ensuring that the information remains current is referred to as
Preincident surveys
Preincident planning
Planning for disaster
Pre-incident planning
The first step to completing a successful Preincident survey is
Confirming a time and date
Building relationship between company officer and the owner/occupant
Delivering a life safety speech
Building the relationship between the company officer and the business owner/occupant
This ensures that pre-incident survey Results will be valuable and the process will Not inconvenience the facility owners/occupant
Good people skills
Good preparation
Verbal communication
Good preparation
The company officer should explain that while the Pre-incident survey is not a code enforcement inspection, any serious fire, or life, safety hazards found we will have to be
Corrected
Issued warnings
Counted against the owner
Corrected
When serious hazards are found, the best approach is to attempt to obtain
A momentary fix
An immediate correction
A full interest
An immediate correction
Pre-incident surveys should be conducted using a systematic and logical approach, and divided between
Each floor of the building
The exterior and interior of structure
The management and staff
the exterior and interior of the structure
A rough drawing of a building prepaired during the facility survey, which generally shows information about building dimensions and other related outside information, such as fire, hydrant, water, tanks, and distances to nearby exposures
Field sketch
Home work
Doodles
Field sketches
For Preincident surveys, This can show relationships between buildings, manufacturing process, and how the facility might appear to someone moving through it.
Field sketches
Pictures
Videos
Voice tapes
Videos
When can company members begin The exterior survey of the facility or building?
Over the phone
After contacting the owner/occupant
Whenever they feel like it
After contacting the owner/occupant
The exterior facility survey focuses on obtaining information to create a ____ ____, or compare observations to an existing ____ ____
Pre plan
Plot plan
Street view
Street survey
Plot plan
All exterior exposures, routes, building features, obstructions accessibility features should be recorded in
Plot plan
Street view
Overall review
Survey
Plot plan
On the interior of a building, vertical shafts and horizontal openings, control rooms, fire, protection equipment, safe havens, open pits, utility shut offs, exits, and hide and equipment closets should be noted in
Plot plan sketch
Floor plan drawings
Survey notes
Floor plan drawings
The life safety information collected by survey personnel can be divided into two main topics: Protection and evaluation of occupants, and
Protection of property
Protection of firefighters
Protection of valuables
Protection of firefighters
This term represents the bulk of fuel available to burn, and generally refers to a buildings continents
Fuel load
Burn pile
Fire pile
Fuel load
The materials used in the construction of the most modern commercial and mercantile buildings contribute ________ fuel to fire
Most
Relatively little
About half
None
Relatively little
The major fuel sources of most fires are
Walls and floors
Ceilings
Furnishings and other building contents
Flammable liquids
Furnishings and other building contents
When company officers observe and record the fuel load of buildings during pre-incident surveys, they are primarily addressing the ___ ______considerations of pre-incident planning
Safety hazard
Fire control
Rescue tactic
Hazmat
Fire control
True or false – some HVAC systems can be used during emergency operations to remove contaminated atmospheres from a structure
True
The __________ survey should also identify any built in ventilation devices that can be used to control a fire or a move hazardous atmospheres from a structure
Preincident survey
Fire resistive, half walls that extend from the underside of a roof to limit the horizontal spread of heat and smoke
Half wall
Curtain boards
Half sheets
Fire walls
Curtain boards
This releases heat and smoke to the outside through vents that work automatically and are placed at the highest point of a roof or wall to limit spread a fire within a building
Vent openings
Automatic roof and wall vents
HVAC systems
Automatic roof and wall vents
Smoke detectors may activate some automatic roof vents, but most vents operate through the use of____ Connected to spring loaded or counter weighted to covered assemblies
Detectors
Fusible links
Alarms
Fusible links
These release heat and smoke from atriums to the outside
Roof vents
Wall vents
Atrium vents
Atrium vents
True or false building codes in most areas require that atriums be equipped with automatic vents
True
These release heat and smoke to the outside from square or rectangle or structures that penetrate the buildings roof. They may have metal, glass, wired glass, or louvered sides
Louvers
Heat vents
Monitors
Monitors
This system introduces thermostatically controlled air into compartments through openings on the floor
HVAC
Underfloor air distribution systems
Heat and roof vents
Underfloor air distribution systems
True or false – regarding Checking built in fire protection, equipment, or systems during pre-incident survey, it is normally recommended that fire companies not test this equipment, but rather note its presence in condition, and evaluate its usefulness during a fire
True
True or false – changes in water demand such as construction of additional buildings using the same supply line can reduce the actual water supply available
True
The success of the pre-incident planning process depends upon the ability of the company to conduct adequate Preincident surveys in the company officers ability to
Process information and complete accurately written reports
Gather information and communicate it verbally
Process information emailed from the owners
Process information and complete accurately written reports
This survey drawing will indicate how buildings are situated in relation to other buildings and streets in the area
Street address
Plot plan
Area sketch
Plot plan
This survey drawing will show the layout of individual floors, subfloors and roofs
Plot plan
Building sketch
Floor plan
Floor plan
This survey drawing will show the side views of structures that depict the number of floors in a building and the grades of surrounding ground
Elevations
Plot plan
Floor plan
Elevations
The three types of facility survey drawings are plot plan, floor plan and
Elevation
Building sketch
Street view
Elevation
The content and format of the pre-incident survey will be dictated by
Management
AHJ
Company officer
The AHJ
True or false – plans can be kept in hard copy Format or provided electronically on apparatus, equipped with mobile data terminals
True
The three major tasks with any pre-incident plan involves gathering data, entering the data into databases, and
Learning from the data
Keeping the data current
Applying data
Keeping the data current
