All persons in the building, including employees, tenants, building staff, and visitors - Answers Building
Occupants
A facility that receives alarm signals from a protected premise and re-transmits or otherwise reports
such alarm signals to the FDNY - Answers Central Station Company
the emptying of a building of all building occupants in response to a fire or an emergency - Answers
Evacuation
The fire safety and evacuation plan/emergency action plan - Answers Emergency Preparedness Plan
The individuals identified in the emergency preparedness plan as responsible for the implementation of
such plan - Answers Fire and Emergency Preparedness Staff
A training exercise by which building occupants are familiarized with and/ or practice the procedures for
the safe, orderly and expeditious in-building relocation, partial evacuation or evacuation, as applicable
to the occupancy or building type, in accordance with the fire safety and evacuation plan. - Answers Fire
Drill
Approved devices, equipment and systems or combinations of systems used to deter a fire, activate an
alarm, extinguish or control a fire. Includes fire extinguishers, sprinkler systems and standpipe systems -
Answers Fire Protective System
The controlled movement of building occupants from an endangered area of a building to an in-building
relocation area with-in the same building in response to a fire or non-fire emergency - Answers In-
Building Relocation
A designated area in a building to which building occupants may be relocated to in accordance with the
emergency preparedness plan for the premises - Answers In- Building Relocation Area (IBRA)
A manually operated device used to initiate an alarm signal - Answers Manual Fire Alarm Box
Buildings that have multiple occupancies. These are referred to as "mixed occupancies" and the
different parts will be required to meet the fire code for each specific area. An example of this is a
shopping mall with underground parking. The shopping area itself is Group M (mercantile), while the
parking area would qualify as Group S (storage) - Answers Mixed Occupancy Building
A biological chemical or nuclear ingredient or release (explosion, natural disaster or other emergency
affecting premises) - Answers Non-Fire Emergency
Training exercise practice procedures for evacuation - Answers Non-Fire Emergency Drill
Those periods of time when a Central Station Company will, at the request of a building owner, not
transmit fire alarm signals received from a building to the Fire Department. Fire alarm systems can be
, taken "off-line" only for Fire Department approved purposes associated with the prevention of
unnecessary and unwarranted alarms. - Answers Off-line
Make announcements from lobby to building occupants in their apartments, offices, classrooms, etc. -
Answers One-Way Voice Communication
the fee owner or lessee of the building - Answers Owner
the emptying of a building of some but not all building occupants in response to a fire or an emergency.
- Answers Partial Evacuation
an electronic sound amplification and distribution system with a microphone, amplifier and
loudspeakers, used to allow a person to address a large public. Public Address systems enable voice
communications from a central location, usually in the building lobby. - Answers Public Address System
refers to any time and any day in which the referenced building is open to the public or business is being
conducted. For a more complete definition, please refer to Section 402 of the 2008 Fire Code. - Answers
Regular Business Hours
the precaution of directing building occupants to remain indoors at their present location - Answers
Shelter in Place
a form of transmission in which both parties
involved have the ability to transmit information. This enables the FEDC, staff, or Fire Department
personnel to communicate with building occupants or each other throughout the building. This is
especially useful during an emergency, and allows staff members to report the conditions of a fire
emergency from the fire floor back to the FEDC in the lobby at the fire command center. - Answers Two-
Way Communication
A alarm triggered, but for which a department response proved unnecessary for an example by smoke
from a lit cigarette in a non-smoking area - Answers Unnecessary Alarm
Failed to function as designed as a result of improper installation - lack of maintenance - Answers
Unwarranted Alarm
The ability to communicate to the occupants of a
building or occupancy, whether by means of a fire alarm system with one-way or two-way voice
communication or other approved means of communication. - Answers Voice Communication Capability
FEP staff members should receive 1 hr of this training to familiarize FEP staff members with their duties
pursuant to the Emergency Preparedness Plan - Answers Initial Training
FEP staff should receive this training at such frequency and for such duration - Answers Refresher
Training