Fire Prevention and Protection Act Flashcards
According to the FPPA, which of the following is not found in the definition of ‘fire protection services’?
A) Fire suppression, fire prevention and fire safety education
B) Rescue and emergency services
C) Remediation of hazardous materials whether they be biological, chemical, radiological, and/or physical and that have the potential to cause harm to humans, animals, or the environment
D) Mitigation and prevention of the risk created by the presence of unsafe levels of carbon monoxide and safety education related to the presence of those levels
C) Remediation of hazardous materials whether they be biological, chemical, radiological, and/or physical and that have the potential to cause harm to humans, animals, or the environment
(Answer C: Definitions)
According to the FPPA, Part 2, (1) and (2), which of the following is not a municipal responsibility or a method of provided services?
A) In discharging its responsibilities, a municipality shall appoint a fire prevention bureau for code enforcement
B) Every municipality shall establish a program in the municipality which must include public education with respect to fire safety and certain components of fire prevention
C) In discharging its responsibilities, a municipality shall appoint a community fire safety officer or a community fire safety team
D) Every municipality shall provide such other fire protection services as it determines may be necessary in accordance with its needs and circumstances
A) In discharging its responsibilities, a municipality shall appoint a fire prevention bureau for code enforcement
Answer A: Part II, Section 2, (1) and (2)
According to the FPPA, a fire chief is the person who is ultimately responsible to the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ of a municipality that appointed him or her for the delivery of fire protection services. A) Mayor B) City Manager C) Residents D) Council
D) Council
Answer: D Part II Section 6, (3)
According to the FPPA, 7.1 (1), which of the following is not a by-law that a council of a municipality may pass?
A) A by-law regulating the setting of open air fires, including establishing the times during which open air fires may be set
B) A by-law regulating vulnerable occupancies
C) A by-law designating private roads as fire routes along which no parking of vehicles shall be permitted and providing for the removal and impounding of any vehicle parked or left along any of the fire routes at the expense of the owner of the vehicle
D) A by-law regulating fire prevention, including the prevention of the spreading of fires
B) A by-law regulating vulnerable occupancies
Answer B: Part II, Section 7.1 (1)
According to the FPPA Part III, 9 (1), which of the following is not a power of the Fire Marshal?
A) To issue long service awards to persons involved in the provision of fire protection services
B) To monitor, review and advise municipalities respecting the provision of fire protection services and to make recommendations to municipal councils for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of those services
C) To establish and maintain a mutual aid plan under which the fire departments that serve the designated area agree to assist each other in the event of an emergency
D) To issue directives to assistants to the Fire Marshal respecting matters relating to this Act and the regulations
C) To establish and maintain a mutual aid plan under which the fire departments that serve the designated area agree to assist each other in the event of an emergency
Answer C: Duty of a Fire Coordinator Part II Section 7, (2) (a)
According to the FPPA Part III, 9 (1), which of the following is not a power of the Fire Marshal?
A) To issue guidelines to municipalities respecting fire protection services and related matters
B) To exercise all the powers assigned to him or her under this Act within the territorial limits of the municipality and within any other area in which the municipality has agreed to provide fire protection services, subject to any conditions specified in the agreement
C) To advise and assist ministries and agencies of government respecting fire protection services and related matters
D) To co-operate with any body or person interested in developing and promoting the principles and practices of fire protection services
B) To exercise all the powers assigned to him or her under this Act within the territorial limits of the municipality and within any other area in which the municipality has agreed to provide fire protection services, subject to any conditions specified in the agreement
Answer B: Powers of fire chief Part II, Section 6 (5)
According to the FPPA, Part III, 9 (2), which of the following is not a duty of the Fire Marshal?
A) To advise municipalities in the interpretation and enforcement of this Act and the regulations
B) To establish a program in the municipality which must include public education with respect to fire safety and certain components of fire prevention
C) To develop training programs and evaluation systems for persons involved in the provision of fire protection services and to provide programs to improve practices relating to fire protection services
D) To develop and maintain statistical records and conduct studies in respect of fire protection services
B) To establish a program in the municipality which must include public education with respect to fire safety and certain components of fire prevention
Answer B: Part II 9 (1) (a) Municipal responsibilities
According to the FPPA Part III, 11, (1) which of the following persons are assistants to the Fire Marshal and shall follow the Fire Marshal’s directives in carry out the Act?
A) The clerk of every municipality that does not have a fire department
B) Any member of a fire prevention bureau established by a municipality
C) The fire chief of every fire department
D) All of the above
D) All of the above
According to the FPPA, Part V, 13 (1) A firefighter or such other person as may be authorized by the fire chief, the Fire Marshal or an assistant to the Fire Marshal may, without a warrant, enter lands or premises that are:
A) Adjacent to the lands or premises on which a fire or emergency has occurred or is occurring, for the purposes of fighting the fire or of providing rescue or emergency services
B) Adjacent to the lands or premises on which there is a serious threat to the health and safety of any person or the quality of the natural environment, for the purpose of removing or reducing the threat
C) None of the above, firefighters must always have a warrant to enter lands or premises
D) Both A & B are correct
D) Both A & B are correct
Answer D: Part V, Section 13 (1) (a) (b)
According to the FPPA, Part 5, Powers of entry, upon entering on land or premises, the Fire Marshal or a fire chief may do the following except:
A) Require that any machinery, equipment or device be operated, used or set in motion under specified conditions
B) Establish and maintain a mutual aid plan under which the fire departments that serve the designated area agree to assist each other in the event of an emergency
C) Close, and prevent entry to, the land or premises for the length of time necessary to complete the examination of the land or premises
D) Remove from the land or premises, retain and examine any article or material, and take such samples or photographs, make videotapes and other images electronic or otherwise that in his or her opinion may be of assistance in determining the cause of the fire under investigation
B) Establish and maintain a mutual aid plan under which the fire departments that serve the designated area agree to assist each other in the event of an emergency
Answer B: Part II, Section 7 (2) (a) Duty of Fire coordinator
According to the FPPA Part V, Section 15 (1) Immediate threat to life, if the Fire Marshal, an assistant to the Fire Marshal or a fire chief has reasonable grounds to believe that a risk of fire poses an immediate threat to life, he or she may, without a warrant, enter on any land or premises and, for the purpose of removing or reducing the threat, may do the following except:
A) Post a fire watch
B) Remove persons on the land or premises
C) Make major repairs to existing fire safety systems
D) Remove combustible or explosive material or anything that may constitute a fire menace
C) Make major repairs to existing fire safety systems
Answer C: Part V 15, 1 (f) make minor repairs to existing fire safety systems
According to the FPPA Part V, Section 15 (1) Immediate threat to life, if the Fire Marshal, an assistant to the Fire Marshal or a fire chief has reasonable grounds to believe that a risk of fire poses an immediate threat to life, he or she may, without a warrant, enter on any land or premises and, for the purpose of removing or reducing the threat, may do the following:
A) Install temporary safeguards, including fire extinguishers and smoke alarms
B) Make minor repairs to existing fire safety systems
C) Do any other thing that the Fire Marshal, an assistant to the Fire Marshal or a fire chief has reasonable grounds to believe is urgently required to remove or reduce the threat to life
D) All of the above
D) All of the above
Answer D: Part V 15, 1
