Deck 1

Question 1

What four factors will increase the number of burning building collapses?

Answer 1

1. The age of the buildings. Average life span = 75-100 years2. Abandonment3. Use of lightweight construction materials: lightweight wood trusses, sheet metal C Beams, wooden I beams, open bar steel joist4. Faulty renovations, illegal and improper.

Question 2

Define: Structural Collapse.

Answer 2

Any portion of a structure that fails as a result of fire, no matter how small.Glass falling from a window because the window frame was heated by fire and fell out or glass cracks from heat and fails.

Question 3

Define: Falling Object

Answer 3

Any object, other than the structure, that fails, is thrown or knocked loose from a burning building.Glass broken by a FF venting is a falling object.Broken glass from window being vented is the most common falling object at a structural fire.

Question 4

Which part of a building is more likely to collapse and kill FF’s?

Answer 4

Floors collapsing kill the most FF’sRoof collapse is the next most dangerous collapse.Then wall collapse.Then ceiling collapse.