FDNY NON-FIRE 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔one-way voice communication - ✔✔enables the FEDC, staff, or fire department
personnel to make announcements from the lobby to building occupants in their
apartments, offices, classrooms, or in building stairwells. Is a public address system that
is capable of making announcements from the fire command center to all parts of the
building.
✔✔one-way voice communication - ✔✔Can be used to warn and instruct building
occupants in case of a fire or non-fire emergency.
✔✔owner - ✔✔the fee owner or lessee of the building, or other person or entity having
charge thereof
✔✔partial evacuation - ✔✔the emptying of a building of some but not all building
occupants in response to a fire or an emergency
✔✔public address system - ✔✔An electronic sound amplification and distribution
system with a microphone, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to allow a person to
address a large public. Enable voice communications from a central location, usually in
the lobby.
✔✔regular business hours - ✔✔any time and day in which the referenced building is
open to the public or business is being conducted.
✔✔shelter in place - ✔✔the precaution of directing building occupants to remain
indoors, at their present location, in response to a fire or non-fire emergency
✔✔two-way voice communication - ✔✔a form of transmission in which both parties
involved have the ability to transmit information. Enables the FEDC, staff, or fire
department personnel to communicate with building occupants or each other throughout
the building. 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.
✔✔two-way voice communication - ✔✔uses warden phones that are placed at several
locations throughout the building, usually near the exit stairways
✔✔unnecessary alarm - ✔✔an alarm signal transmitted by a fire alarm system which
functioned as designed, but for which a department response proved unnecessary. AN
example is an alarm triggered by smoke from a lit cigarette in a non-smoking area,
when the presence of smoke does not implicate fire safety concerns.
, ✔✔unwarranted alarm - ✔✔an alarm signal transmitted by a fire alarm system which
failed to function as designed as a result of improper installation, improper maintenance,
malfunction, or other factor. Examples are alarms resulting from improper smoke
detector placement, improper detector setting for installed location, lack of system
maintenance, and control panel malfunction.
✔✔voice communication capability - ✔✔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.
✔✔duties of F-07 - ✔✔conduct drills in buildings that do not require fire safety director
or coordinator of fire safety and alarm systems
✔✔emergency preparedness plan - ✔✔procedures to follow vary on type of occupancy,
height of building, and other requirements
✔✔emergency preparedness plan - ✔✔copy must be maintained on premises in
approved location (fire command station or approved first responder box) and made
available at all times to FDNY
✔✔emergency preparedness plan - ✔✔must be reviewed once a year and when
change staff assignment, use or occupancy of space, or design, and arrangement of
premises
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔business name, address, type, occupied floors, number
employees, hours of operation
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔location of entrances and exits and where lead to
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔details regarding voice communication capabilities and fire
protection systems and company maintaining them
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔procedure and person responsible for reporting emergency to
FDNY and coordinating with emergency personnel upon arrival
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔procedure and person responsible for notifying occupants of
emergency and method of notification
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔means for receiving and procedure for monitoring public
emergency notification system
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔identity and location of CPR qualified staff and how to contact
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔one-way voice communication - ✔✔enables the FEDC, staff, or fire department
personnel to make announcements from the lobby to building occupants in their
apartments, offices, classrooms, or in building stairwells. Is a public address system that
is capable of making announcements from the fire command center to all parts of the
building.
✔✔one-way voice communication - ✔✔Can be used to warn and instruct building
occupants in case of a fire or non-fire emergency.
✔✔owner - ✔✔the fee owner or lessee of the building, or other person or entity having
charge thereof
✔✔partial evacuation - ✔✔the emptying of a building of some but not all building
occupants in response to a fire or an emergency
✔✔public address system - ✔✔An electronic sound amplification and distribution
system with a microphone, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to allow a person to
address a large public. Enable voice communications from a central location, usually in
the lobby.
✔✔regular business hours - ✔✔any time and day in which the referenced building is
open to the public or business is being conducted.
✔✔shelter in place - ✔✔the precaution of directing building occupants to remain
indoors, at their present location, in response to a fire or non-fire emergency
✔✔two-way voice communication - ✔✔a form of transmission in which both parties
involved have the ability to transmit information. Enables the FEDC, staff, or fire
department personnel to communicate with building occupants or each other throughout
the building. 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.
✔✔two-way voice communication - ✔✔uses warden phones that are placed at several
locations throughout the building, usually near the exit stairways
✔✔unnecessary alarm - ✔✔an alarm signal transmitted by a fire alarm system which
functioned as designed, but for which a department response proved unnecessary. AN
example is an alarm triggered by smoke from a lit cigarette in a non-smoking area,
when the presence of smoke does not implicate fire safety concerns.
, ✔✔unwarranted alarm - ✔✔an alarm signal transmitted by a fire alarm system which
failed to function as designed as a result of improper installation, improper maintenance,
malfunction, or other factor. Examples are alarms resulting from improper smoke
detector placement, improper detector setting for installed location, lack of system
maintenance, and control panel malfunction.
✔✔voice communication capability - ✔✔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.
✔✔duties of F-07 - ✔✔conduct drills in buildings that do not require fire safety director
or coordinator of fire safety and alarm systems
✔✔emergency preparedness plan - ✔✔procedures to follow vary on type of occupancy,
height of building, and other requirements
✔✔emergency preparedness plan - ✔✔copy must be maintained on premises in
approved location (fire command station or approved first responder box) and made
available at all times to FDNY
✔✔emergency preparedness plan - ✔✔must be reviewed once a year and when
change staff assignment, use or occupancy of space, or design, and arrangement of
premises
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔business name, address, type, occupied floors, number
employees, hours of operation
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔location of entrances and exits and where lead to
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔details regarding voice communication capabilities and fire
protection systems and company maintaining them
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔procedure and person responsible for reporting emergency to
FDNY and coordinating with emergency personnel upon arrival
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔procedure and person responsible for notifying occupants of
emergency and method of notification
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔means for receiving and procedure for monitoring public
emergency notification system
✔✔include in EPP - ✔✔identity and location of CPR qualified staff and how to contact
