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FIRE OFFICER 1 STUDY GUIDE 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. According to NFPA, how many levels of fire officers are there?
- correct answer - 4
2. Which level of fire officer is generally associated with supervising a
single fire company or apparatus? - correct answer - Fire Officer I
3. What is the lowest level of fire officer that is qualified for a chief officer
position? - correct answer - Fire Officer III
4. Which level of fire officer is generally associated as being the senior non
chief officer in a department? - correct answer - Fire Officer II
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5. At the Fire Officer I level, emphasis is placed on accomplishing the
departments goals and objectives by work through
to achieve the desired results. - correct answer -
Subordinates
6. Within the NFPA requirements for Fire Officer I, what are the requirements
for certification as an instructor? - correct answer
- NFPA Fire Instructor I
7. Which term does the International Association of Fire Chiefs use for Fire
Officer I? - correct answer - Supervising Fire Officer
8. Historically, how did the fire service originate in the United States? -
correct answer - As communities of civilian volunteers.
9. According to the NFPA, approximately what percentage of fire fighters in
the United States are volunteers? - correct answer - 69 percent
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10. Which type of fire department uses full-time career
personnel with volunteer or paid-on-call to staff the
department? - correct answer - Combination
11. Although there are four common forms of staffing fire department
organizations, most discussions divide the fire fighters into which two
categories? - correct answer - Career and Volunteer
12. Which type of organization do private industries or nongovernmental
organizations use to provide fire protection for factories, processing
plants, and large private facilities? - correct answer - Brigades
13. In 1871, two major fires occurred that would change the way the United
States viewed and responded to fire. What was one of those fires? - correct
answer - The Great Chicago Fire
14. When steam-powered fire engines were introduced in the 1800s, what
was the reaction of many volunteer fire fighters? - correct answer - Fire
fighters were threatened by the apparatus and resisted their use.
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15. Which devices introduced in the 1850s enabled citizens to send a
coded telegraph signal to the fire department dispatch center? - correct
answer - Public call boxes
16. What was the first building codes originally developed to prevent? -
correct answer - Building collapse
17. Which industry played a major role in the development of the first model
building codes? - correct answer - The insurance industry
18. Despite the invention of technical firefighting equipment, what is the
most important resource on a fire scene? - correct answer - Fire fighters
19. To which rank do fire fighters report directly? - correct answer -
Lieutenant
FIRE OFFICER 1 STUDY GUIDE 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. According to NFPA, how many levels of fire officers are there?
- correct answer - 4
2. Which level of fire officer is generally associated with supervising a
single fire company or apparatus? - correct answer - Fire Officer I
3. What is the lowest level of fire officer that is qualified for a chief officer
position? - correct answer - Fire Officer III
4. Which level of fire officer is generally associated as being the senior non
chief officer in a department? - correct answer - Fire Officer II
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5. At the Fire Officer I level, emphasis is placed on accomplishing the
departments goals and objectives by work through
to achieve the desired results. - correct answer -
Subordinates
6. Within the NFPA requirements for Fire Officer I, what are the requirements
for certification as an instructor? - correct answer
- NFPA Fire Instructor I
7. Which term does the International Association of Fire Chiefs use for Fire
Officer I? - correct answer - Supervising Fire Officer
8. Historically, how did the fire service originate in the United States? -
correct answer - As communities of civilian volunteers.
9. According to the NFPA, approximately what percentage of fire fighters in
the United States are volunteers? - correct answer - 69 percent
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10. Which type of fire department uses full-time career
personnel with volunteer or paid-on-call to staff the
department? - correct answer - Combination
11. Although there are four common forms of staffing fire department
organizations, most discussions divide the fire fighters into which two
categories? - correct answer - Career and Volunteer
12. Which type of organization do private industries or nongovernmental
organizations use to provide fire protection for factories, processing
plants, and large private facilities? - correct answer - Brigades
13. In 1871, two major fires occurred that would change the way the United
States viewed and responded to fire. What was one of those fires? - correct
answer - The Great Chicago Fire
14. When steam-powered fire engines were introduced in the 1800s, what
was the reaction of many volunteer fire fighters? - correct answer - Fire
fighters were threatened by the apparatus and resisted their use.
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15. Which devices introduced in the 1850s enabled citizens to send a
coded telegraph signal to the fire department dispatch center? - correct
answer - Public call boxes
16. What was the first building codes originally developed to prevent? -
correct answer - Building collapse
17. Which industry played a major role in the development of the first model
building codes? - correct answer - The insurance industry
18. Despite the invention of technical firefighting equipment, what is the
most important resource on a fire scene? - correct answer - Fire fighters
19. To which rank do fire fighters report directly? - correct answer -
Lieutenant
