Chapter 13

Question 1

Codes are rewritten and issued every ___ years by NFPA and ICC.

Answer 1

3 years

Question 2

The term ___, although commonly used for many structures, is a financial/legal term.

Answer 2

Condominium

Question 3

The usual height for garden style apartments is ___ stories.

Answer 3

3 stories

Question 4

Garden apartments… The pre incident plan review should address limited parking space, including calling for a minimum of ___ feet of clear width, proper turning radii, red striping of curbs and signage.

Answer 4

20 feet

Question 5

Usually all the gas meters in an apartment complies are located in one ___ location.

Answer 5

Basement

Question 6

___ is the only construction material that does not yield heat when burned in pure oxygen.

Answer 6

Gypsum

Question 7

Most NFPA 13R protected apartment building are required to have a ___ inch fire department connection(FDC)

Answer 7

1 1/2”

Question 8

There is probably no class of building in which good fire planning and training can pay off more than in ___.

Answer 8

Garden apartments

Question 9

More recently, row houses have been given dignified new name, ___.

Answer 9

Townhouses

Question 10

Tenements got their start in the 1800’s. Over the years, this type of multi story multiple dwelling of ordinary construction has come to mean ___.

Answer 10

Substandard housing

Question 11

___ are built for aesthetic reasons, and aesthetic reason only.

Answer 11

Atria

Question 12

The top of an atrium does not have to be sprinklered if it is more than ___ feet above the ground floor.

Answer 12

55 feet

Question 13

Building codes typically allow up to ___ floors to be open to the atrium.

Answer 13

3

Question 14

Recent building codes have allowed covered mall building to be of unlimited area if they are of type ___ construction and have ___ feet of open space around them.

Answer 14

Type 1, 2, 3, or 4

60 feet

Question 15

A covered mall with have a class ___ standpipe system.

Answer 15

class 1

Question 16

Special purpose building may be designed to channel the force of an internal explosion in a desired direction(____).

Answer 16

Explosion venting

Question 17

Pre WW2 high rise buildings were universally of ___ construction.

Answer 17

Steel framed

Question 18

The Empire State building weighs about ___ pounds per cubic foot.

Answer 18

23

Question 19

A typical modern high rise weighs only ___ pounds per cubic foot.

Answer 19

8

Question 20

In a modern office building, possibly ___% or more of the floor volume is located in the ceiling void.

Answer 20

25%

Question 21

Modern high rises, stairs are often located in the core and are frequently ___, two stairways in the same shaft.

Answer 21

Scissor stairways

Question 22

For years, the model building codes have permitted __% of exit stairwells to terminate I the building’s lobby, rather than outdoors.

Answer 22

50%

Question 23

Some stairways are locked against reentry on all floors. Some codes require doors to be unlocked for reentry on certain floors, typically no more than ___ intervening floors between reentry floors.

Answer 23

4 floors

Question 24

Other codes require automatic release of locks upon a tie alarm system activation, manual release from the lobby command center and telephone in the stairwells ever ___ floors.

Answer 24

5 floors

Question 25

The principal smoke moving mechanism is the ___ of fire.

Answer 25

Thermal energy

Question 26

This thermal energy can be massive. The burning rate of the fuel in the MGM Grand Hotel fire in Las Vegas, for example, was estimate at ___ tons per minute.

Answer 26

3 tons

Question 27

Under ___ conditions, smoke will move up and away from the fire.

Answer 27

Lapse

Question 28

If there is a layer of warmer air than the air below it, the condition is called ___, and the layer is called the ___.

Answer 28

Pause

Inversion layer

Question 29

Wind blowing against a building seems to split about ___ of the way up the building.

Answer 29

2/3

Question 30

Modern high rise building weigh about ___ or ___ pounds per cubic foot.

Answer 30

8 or 9

Question 31

In a cold climate, a temperature differential of about ___ might exist for weeks on end, whereas in the heat of summer the difference might only be about ___.

Answer 31

70°F

15°F

Question 32

Under winter conditions, stack effect causes movement of air from the floors into the vertical shafts, stairways, elevators, and so on in the lower portion of the building. The greatest flow will be at the ___ floor. At a point about ___ to ___ the buildings height, the flow is reduced to zero; this is called the neutral zone.

Answer 32

First floor

1/3 to 1/2

Question 33

___ smoke falls downward.

Answer 33

Cold

Question 34

Some buildings simply have breakable tempered glass windows, typically spaced on ___ foot centers around the building perimeter.

Answer 34

50 foot

Question 35

Breakable glass windows must be identified in some manner; it is common for reflective Maltese cross sticker, or a ___, to appear on the glass.

Answer 35

Frosted inscription

Question 36

Any equipment designed to function in the case of fire is, in effect, ___.

Answer 36

Fire department equipment

Question 37

The argument against sprinkler is usually a ___ one.

Answer 37

Economic

Question 38

The basic argument for sprinkler protection is one of ___.

Answer 38

Equity

Question 39

Hospitals and nursing homes… The key to patient safety is to move patients ___, rather than ___.

Answer 39

Horizontally

Vertically

Question 40

Hospitals and nursing homes… To compliment the smoke barriers, corridors are a minimum of ___ feet wide to accommodate the size and width of a rolling hospital bed.

Answer 40

8 feet

Question 41

Hospitals and nursing homes… Hospitals and nursing home staff practice ___.

Answer 41

RACE

Question 42

R:
A:
C:
E:

Answer 42

R: Remove all the people in immediate danger to safety
A: Activate the manual pull station & have someone call 911
C: Close doors to confine the spread of smoke and fire
E: Extinguish the fire if possible

Question 43

Most library stack areas are built to a common pattern. Stack levels are about ___ feet high so attendants can reach the shelves without a ladder.

Answer 43

6 feet

Question 44

The most famous and largest nightclub disaster was the ___ Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, which killed ___ people.

Answer 44

1942

492

Question 45

Office buildings are built using ___ type/s of construction.

Answer 45

All 5 types

Question 46

The code regulation concerning schools have been shaped by one particular fire - the ___ Our Lady of Angels fire in Chicago, which killed __ students and three nuns.

Answer 46

1958

92 students

Question 47

School corridor widths are much larger than normal, ___ feet in most cases.

Answer 47

6 feet

Question 48

Self storage building can be found in a variety of construction types, most notably types ___ through ___.

Answer 48

Type 1 through 4

Question 49

Multi story Type 1 and 4 facilities; ___ protection is mandated.

Answer 49

Sprinkler

Question 50

The Cape Cod is traditionally a ___ story home with a steep pitched roof.

Answer 50

1 1/2 story

Question 51

The split level home is just that, ___ floors joined by short run stairways.

Answer 51

3 floors

Question 52

The split level home is ___ frame construction.

Answer 52

Platform frame

Question 53

Stadiums can vary in seating capacity from a few thousand to more than ___.

Answer 53

80,000

Question 54

Stadiums are almost always type ___ construction.

Answer 54

Type 1

Question 55

Taxpayers are usually limited to approximately ___ to ___ small stores.

Answer 55

6 to 10

Question 56

Strip malls are usually larger than taxpayers and have as many as ___ to ___ small stores and a large anchor store or two.

Answer 56

15 to 20

Question 57

Strip mall anchor stores may be more than ___ feet deep.

Answer 57

150 feet

Question 58

Strip malls… Currently, draft stops are required to limit the size of attic compartments to ___ ft sq and floor void compartments to ___ sq ft.

Answer 58

3,000 sq ft

1,000 sq ft

Question 59

Some building and fire codes require automatic sprinkler for retail sales rooms larger than ___ sq ft.

Answer 59

12,000 sq ft

Question 60

Today, new nightclubs with occupant levels over ___ or over ___ sq ft are sprinklered.

Answer 60

100

5,000 sq ft

Question 61

Building codes define underground buildings as having an occupied level at least ___ feet below the level of exit discharge.

Answer 61

30 feet

Question 62

When the occupied level is more than ___ feet below the level of exit discharge, a smoke barrier that splits the floor levels roughly in half and that runs vertically up through all underground levels must be provided.

Answer 62

60 feet

Question 63

The pallet storage system provided as much as ___ times the surface area as boxes stacked solid.

Answer 63

36 times

Question 64

In the past, FDC was optional. NFPA 13 now requires the connection except for systems of ___ sprinklers or less or when permission has been obtained from the AHJ.

Answer 64

20 sprinklers or less

Question 65

As many as ___% of fire doors in supposedly well protected properties have been found to be inoperative.

Answer 65

50%

Question 66

Fire codes call for firefighter access doors every ___ feet in a high piled stock warehouse.

Answer 66

100 feet

Question 67

The width of garment cutting tables is permitted to be ___ inches.

Answer 67

48 inches

Question 68

In high rise fires; occupants should be moved to ___ floors below the fire, and then protected in place.

Answer 68

5 floors

Question 69

Winds in excess of ___ cannot be reversed with PPV fans.

Answer 69

25mph

Question 70

The ___ has the m most poke through holes ad concealed avenues for fire spread.

Answer 70

Bathroom.