Chapter 5 - Stairwells

Question 1

It’s better to use the stairwell than the elevators if the fire is below what floor?

Answer 1

8th

Question 2

Stairwell should always be used if the fire is below

Answer 2

Ground

Question 3

What are the two ways stairwell doors can be locked?

Answer 3

Mechanically or electronically.

Question 4

What are the two types of electric door locks?

Answer 4

Electric strike
Maglock

Question 5

Keys almost never override which type of lock?

Answer 5

Mag locks.

Question 6

How are mag locks unlocked?

Answer 6

Only unlocked by interrupting their power supply.

Question 7

What may be the only option for getting past a locked mag lock door

Answer 7

Opening the wall next to the door.

Question 8

Every building has at least how many stairwells usually in the core?

Answer 8

Two.

Question 9

What must be done to the attack starewell before fire attack is initiated?

Answer 9

It must be cleared of evacuees.

Question 10

How should you initiate the clearing of evacuees from the attack stairwell?

Answer 10

The public address system.

Question 11

City codes normally require buildings to provide reentry floors once at least how many floors?

Answer 11

Every five floors.

Question 12

What is the most common stairwell?

Answer 12

U-Return.

Question 13

What is the best way to name individual stairs in a set of scissor stairs?

Answer 13

Give each stair one name from bottom to top.

Question 14

What shows firefighters that they have a fire just inside the door to the tenant area?

Answer 14

If firefighters find the damper open when they enter the vestibule.

Question 15

Because the exhaust fan is bigger than the supply fan, it creates what type of pressure in the vestibule

Answer 15

Negative.

Question 16

Where must the plug-in phones be acquired from for radio communication in high rises?

Answer 16

The fire control room.

Question 17

What could be considered the lifeline of emergency operations

Answer 17

Stairwells

Question 18

Demolition is often the only way what type of door can be opened

Answer 18

Outside stairwell door

Question 19

Rather than ripping the outside stairwell door off firefighter should access the stairwell from what floor

Answer 19

Second floor

Question 20

Where are the magnets located on maglock doors

Answer 20

Usually at the top of the door

Question 21

What type of stair should the side of the core that the door opens to be indicated

Answer 21

Scissor stairwells

Question 22

Rather than ripping the door off of a steroid door you cannot enter firefighters should access the stairwell where

Answer 22

From the second floor. (66)

Question 23

What is on the inside of a door if it’s mag locked

Answer 23

Red button or an alarm pull station

Question 24

How do you close a stairwell door without locking it

Answer 24

Door straps.

Question 25

Which stairwell doors must be permanently unlocked or unlock upon alarm

Answer 25

Stairwell doors on reentry floors

Question 26

What type of smoke towers there’s no method of intervention for smoke being pulled into the exhaust shaft

Answer 26

Open balcony

Question 27

When the damper is activated by a heat detector where is it located

Answer 27

Heat detectors are in the vestible and in the tenant area

Question 28

In what type of stairs should the side of the core that the door opens to be indicated

Answer 28

Scissor stairwells