TFD Company Officer Chapter 1

Question 1

Which NFPA relates to the professional qualification standards for fire officers?

Answer 1

NFPA 1021

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Question 2

How many levels of fire officers are defined in NFPA 1021?

Answer 2

4

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Question 3

What level of fire officer usually supervises a single company or may be assigned to supervise a small administrative or technical group?

Answer 3

Fire Officer I

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Question 4

What level of fire officer is a senior non-chief officer who is the overall supervisor at a multiple unit fire station?

Answer 4

Fire Officer II

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Question 5

What level of fire officer usually refers to a battalion, deputy, or assistant chief?

Answer 5

Fire Officer III

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Question 6

What level fire officer usually refers to the overall fire chief?

Answer 6

Fire Officer IV

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Question 7

Where did the foundation for the company officer practice come from?

Answer 7

WWII

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Question 8

What year was NFPA 1021 adopted?

Answer 8

1976

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Question 9

What organization expanded company officer development in 2003 providing an officer development handbook?

Answer 9

International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC)

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Question 10

What name does the International Association of Fire Chiefs use when referring to Fire Officer Level I?

Answer 10

Supervising Fire Officer

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Question 11

What is the Fire Officer I expected to do immediately after mitigating an emergency?

Answer 11

A preliminary investigation

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Question 12

What is the term used for departments who pay their firefighters for each alarm they respond to?

Answer 12

“Paid on call”

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Question 13

What percentage of firefighter in the US are full-time career firefighters?

Answer 13

31%

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Question 14

In 2011 what fraction of fire department responses were for medical emergencies?

Answer 14

2/3

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Question 15

in 2011 what percentage of fire department responses involved actual fire?

Answer 15

5%

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Question 16

Who created the first known fire department and when?

Answer 16

Augustus Caesar in 24 B.C.

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Question 17

Where was the first documented fire in North America and in what year did it happen?

Answer 17

Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 A.D.

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Question 18

Where was the first volunteer fire company organized in the US and in what year?

Answer 18

Philadelphia in 1735

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Question 19

Under who’s leadership was the first volunteer fire department in the US organized?

Answer 19

Benjamin Franklin

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Question 20

What was the name of the first Volunteer fire department in the US?

Answer 20

The Union Fire Company

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Question 21

What year was the Chicago and Peshtigo fire?

Answer 21

1871

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Question 22

What was the deadliest fire in US history?

Answer 22

Peshtigo Fire (2200 people dead)
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Question 23

What is the second most common reason for fire service response?

Answer 23

Fire Alarms

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Question 24

What is the third most common reason for fire service response?

Answer 24

Investigating and odor

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Question 25

On average, for every 100 fire alarms sounding how many signify an actual fire?

Answer 25

Fewer that 1 out of 100 | Page 18

Question 26

Who is a midlevel chief who often has a functional area of responsibility, such as training, and answers directly to the fire chief?

Answer 26

Assistant Chief | Page 12

Question 27

Who is usually the first level of fire chief?

Answer 27

Battalion Chief | Page 12

Question 28

What is a superior-subordinate authority relationship that starts at the top of an organization and extends to the lowest level referred to as?

Answer 28

Chain of command | Page 12

Question 29

What is a code or standard developed through an agreement between a group of people representing different organizations and interests?

Answer 29

Consensus Document i.e. NFPA Standards | Page 11

Question 30

What are restraining, regulating, governing, counter-acting and overpowering examples of?

Answer 30

Controlling | Page 14

Question 31

What is the process of identifying problems and opportunities and resolving them?

Answer 31

Decision making | Page 18

Question 32

What is a moral, mental, and physical state in which all ranks respond to the will of the leader. Also, the guidelines that a department sets for firefighters to work within.

Answer 32

Discipline | Page 13

Question 33

What is the production process in which each worker repeats one step over and over, achieving greater efficiencies in the use of time and knowledge?

Answer 33

Division of labor | Page 13

Question 34

What was the historical mark called that was put on buildings to let firefighters know that the building was insured?

Answer 34

Fire Mark | Page 11

Question 35

What is the system that defines the roles and responsibilities to be assumed by personnel and the operating procedures to be used in the management and direction of emergency operations?

Answer 35

Incident Command System (ICS) or Incident Management System (IMS) (Page 17)

Question 36

What is the complex process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission, task, or objective and directs an organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent?

Answer 36

Leadership | Page 14

Question 37

What is the act of guiding or directing in a course of action called?

Answer 37

Leading | Page 14

Question 38

What is the act of putting resources together into an orderly, functional, structured whole called?

Answer 38

Organizing | Page 14

Question 39

What is developing a scheme, program, or method that is worked out beforehand to accomplish an objective called?

Answer 39

Planning | Page 14

Question 40

What are formal statements that provide guidelines for present and future actions that often require personnel to make judgments called?

Answer 40

Policies | Page 15

Question 41

What are directives developed by various government-authorized organizations to implement a law that has been passed by a governing body?

Answer 41

Rules and regulations | Page 15

Question 42

What do you call the maximum number of personnel or activities that can be effectively controlled by one individual?

Answer 42

Span of Control | Page 13

Question 43

What is considered an acceptable span of control?

Answer 43

3-7 | Page 13

Question 44

What are written organizational directives that establish or prescribe specific operational or administrative methods to be followed routinely for the performance of designated operations or actions?

Answer 44

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) | Page 15

Question 45

What do you call the management concept where a subordinate should have only one supervisor, and that a decision can be traced back through subordinates to the manager who originated it?

Answer 45

Unity of command | Page 12