Chapters 7-9

Question 1

How many stories are garden apartments?

Answer 1

Three to four stories

Question 2

What made dictate strategy on Garden style Apartments?

Answer 2

Age and physical ability

Question 3

Load Bearing walls and Garden Apartments are two basic Construction types.

Answer 3

Masonry or wood frame

Question 4

Garden Apartments typically have how many apartments per floor

Answer 4

Four Apartments per floor

Question 5

What is critical to success in addict or cock-off fires?

Answer 5

Vertical ventilation

Question 6

At a minimum, how many EMS support units should be dispatched on the first alarm of a garden apartment?

Answer 6

One at a minimum

Question 7

One or two story structure that contains two or more businesses or Mercantile occupancies on the ground floor

Answer 7

Strip shopping center

Question 8

In strip center structures that are one story buildings collapse potential is related directly to what?

Answer 8

Roof construction type

Question 9

The common attic space or cock Loft allows entering smoke and heat to travel horizontally toward the end of the building this travel is called what?

Answer 9

Mushrooming

Question 10

A building or structure that was used for manufacturing, warehousing, or sales and currently is not occupied

Answer 10

Vacant commercial building

Question 11

What vacant commercial buildings pose the most serious problems Under Fire conditions.

Answer 11

Old style Construction because they have minimal fire resistiveness and lack built-in Fire Protection

Question 12

Steel bar joist roofs have been known to fail in as little as?

Answer 12

9 minutes

Question 13

In vacant building fires exposures will fall into what two basic categories?

Answer 13

Connected and unconnected exposures

Question 14

Your decision on the type of fire attack to use must be based on what?

Answer 14

Fire conditions and available resources

Question 15

Large retail store that merchandises miscellaneous Building Supplies is generally known as what?

Answer 15

Home Improvement centers

Question 16

What two categories do lumber yards generally fall into?

Answer 16

Traditional and Home Improvement centers

Question 17

Any building providing transient or short-term housing for fewer than 100 people.

Answer 17

Small hotel or boarding house

Question 18

Small hotels and boarding houses are typically more than ____ but fewer than _____floors in height

Answer 18

More than 1
Fewer than 8

Question 19

Blank have to be considered the first line of defense in any residential occupancy

Answer 19

Alarm systems

Question 20

What type of standpipe systems are normally found in small hotels?

Answer 20

Class II

Question 21

_____ civilians die in every 1,000 dwelling fires in this country every year.

Answer 21

Seven

Question 22

______civilians die in every thousand small hotel and boarding house fires each year.

Answer 22

18

Question 23

Any large retail complex contained Under One Roof with a primary entrances to the various stores being from enclosed walkways

Answer 23

Enclosed Mall

Question 24

Enclosed malls are typically one to two stories in height but rarely exceed?

Answer 24

Five stories

Question 25

Enclosed malls of modern construction will generally have what Class standpipe system?

Answer 25

Class one

Question 26

Old commercial buildings are often converted into what?

Answer 26

Trendy malls

Question 27

It is recommended that Personnel not work and tools not be used within how many feet of the catenary system

Answer 27

8 ft

Question 28

Rudder wash from helicopters can create winds up to what?

Answer 28

70 mph

Question 29

What are the three basic types of shipping documents used by railroads?

Answer 29

Consist, industry switch list, and way bill

Question 30

True or false. Fire departments with deep water ports are required by US Coast Guard to have firefighters trained in Marine operations.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

True or false. And ocean going vessel is a sovereign territory of the country of registry whether it is in Port or at sea?

Answer 31

True