Fire Prevention And Protection Act Flashcards
According to the FFPA, 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 where 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
Answer C
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 established 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
Answer A
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
Answer D
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 established 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
Answer B
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 o 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 purpose 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
Answer D
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
Answer B
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 system
D) Remove combustible or explosive material or anything that may constitute a fire menace
Answer C
The Fire Protection and Prevention Act gives an assistant to the Fire Marshal the right to enter a property?
A) Without a warrant
B) To inspect the land and premises
C) For the purposes of assessing fire safety
D) All of the above
Answer D
The following are designated as Inspectors in the Fire Protection and Prevention Act?
A) The Fire Marshal
B) A Fire Chief
C) An assistant to the Fire Marshal
D) All of the Above
Answer D
Under the FPPA, a municipality may pass by-laws as it determines necessary to?
A) Regulate fire prevention
B) Regulate the appointment of the Chief Fire Official
C) Regulate the installation open air burning appliances not meeting the requirements of TSSA
D) All of the above
Answer A
The fine structure for a Corporation contravening the Fire Protection and Prevention Act is ?
A) A maximum fine less than or equal to $500,000 for the first offence and not more than $1, 500, 00 for a subsequent offence
B) A maximum fine less than or equal to $100,00 for the first offence and not more than $1, 500,000 for a subsequent offence
C) A maximum fine less than or equal to $500,000 or imprisonment for a term less than or equal to one year or both
D) A maximum fine less than or equal to $1, 500, 000
Answer A
The maximum fine for an individual contravening the Ontario Fire Code is?
A) $50,000 or one-year imprisonment
B) $100,000 for the first offence
C) $50,000 for the first offence
D) $20,000 for every day of default
Answer C
Under the FPPA every municipality must?
A) Coordinate a Fire Prevention Week Initiative in conjunction with the Fire Marshal’s Public Safety Council
B) Have a Smoke Alarm and Carbon Monoxide alarm program
C) Establish a public education fire safety program including various fire prevention components
D) Establish a full time Municipal Fire Department
Answer C
The FPPA specifies that the Ontario Fire Code applies to the unoccupied parts of a building that is under construction within the meanings of the Building Code Act if?
A) The Building Department has issued an Occupancy permit for the occupied portion of the building
B) There has been no substantial work related to the construction of the building for at least six months
C) The Chief Building Official defers to the Chief Fire Official to issue corrective requirements
D) If the building contains a Vulnerable Occupancy
Answer B
Under the FPPA, the power to enter and inspect land and premises?
A) Needs a warrant
B) Can be exercised at any time of the day
C) Can be exercised at all reasonable times
D) Only with a police officer present
Answer C
