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1-Manual pull stations are red. Those in Group "B" buildings and Group "R-1" hotels have a ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
one-inch diagonal white stripe from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. What is ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
the meaning of the white stripe? Why are these white-striped pull stations found in "B" and
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"R-1" properties? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔The white stripe indicates that
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when a manual pull station is activated, the fire alarm signal will be automatically sent to
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the Fire Alarm Control Panel, the Central Station and the Fire Department. Group "B" and
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"R-1" properties must have the fire alarm systems monitored by Central Stations; therefore,
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the fire alarm does not stay "in-house." Note: The 2008 Fire Code mandated that all
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buildings with fire alarm systems have central station monitoring, regardless of whether the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
manual pull stations have the white stripe.
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2-A smoke detector is designed to detect smoke and activate a fire alarm. Why must area
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smoke detectors be located in elevator lobbies? Explain your answer. - correct
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answer✔✔Area smoke detectors must be located in elevator lobbies to activate elevator ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
recall. The elevator lobby area smoke detectors activate because there is smoke in the
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elevator lobby, hence the proximity of the smoke to the elevators and their occupants is
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prioritized and the elevators recall to the Ground Floor or lowest terminal landing to ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
protect the elevator occupants and allow them to escape the property. When two smoke
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detectors are located in elevator lobbies, they must both activate to sound the alarm and ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
recall the elevators. They are known as "cross-over smoke detectors."
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3-A "sky lobby" is an upper floor where passengers must transfer from one elevator bank to
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another to reach the desired floor. In a two-bank building, will there be a blind shaft on the
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bank that services the higher floors? Yes/No? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔No.
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A sky lobby exists when passengers must transfer from one elevator bank to another
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elevator bank to reach the desired floor. The option of getting in the high-rise bank ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
elevators on the lobby level does not exist. Therefore, the high-rise bank elevators are not ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
express elevators. In the high-rise bank, the space between the second floor and the sky
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,4- The FLS Building Evacuation Supervisor is not required to hold a certificate of fitness
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FLS Director but must have a certificate of fitness fire guard in the event there is a torch
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operations job scheduled when the building has 500 people or less. True or false? Explain ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
your answer. - correct answer✔✔False. The FLS Building Evacuation Supervisor (FLS BES)
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is not required to hold a Certificate of Fitness of any category. Because the FLS BES must be
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available to respond to the Fire Alarm Control Panel when the building has 450 occupants
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or less and a fire alarm activates, then it is impossible for the FLS BES to oversee torch
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operations as a Fire Guard, even if the FLS BES did in fact have a Certificate of Fitness Fire ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Guard F-60. ||\\//||
5- The heat that is generated by the sun is transferred via radiation. Why is it not via
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conduction? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔Heat transfer via conduction requires ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
an intervening medium (direct contact) that allows the heat to transfer from point "A" to
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point "B." For example, a metal pipe heated at one end will eventually heat the opposite end
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and anything touching the pipe. There is no solid object connecting the sun to Earth. Heat
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transfer from the sun is via Radiation (electromagnetic waves). ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
6- The ball-drip valve in a fire suppression system is located on the first sub-Grade level of a
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building. Why is it not located on another level? Explain your answer. - correct
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answer✔✔The Ball-Drip Valve is designed to detect when the Lower Check Valve in the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
system is defective or has failed completely. It is also designed to drip excess water from the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
pipe between the Fire Department Connection and the Lower Check Valve to prevent the
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water from freezing after the Fire Department disconnects the fire hoses from the Fire
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Department Connection. Hence, the Ball-Drip Valve must be at a level that is lower (Cellar ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
level) than the location of the Fire Department Connections (street level). ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
7- aww If a FLS Director is not required to be present in a Group "B" building, then who is
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required to be in the building to address fire and non-fire emergencies in the absence of the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
FLS Director? And, what determines when a FLS Director is required to be in the building?
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Explain your answers. - correct answer✔✔The FLS Building Evacuation Supervisor (FLS ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
BES) is required to be in the Group "B" property when the Fire and Life Safety Director is
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not required to be in the property. A Fire and Life Safety Director is required to be in the
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property when there are more than 450 in the entire building or more than 100 people ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
,above or below the Ground Floor, excluding the Ground Floor; and during normal business
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hours of the building. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
8- No fire alarm activation goes directly from an alarm-sending device to the Fire
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Department. In a fire alarm system, where do all fire alarms first report the activation of an ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
alarm-sending device and why? Explain your answers. - correct answer✔✔All automatic ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
and manual alarm-sending (peripheral) devices first send the signal to the Fire Alarm
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Control Panel to alert the Fire and Life Safety Director that a fire alarm has activated. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
9- Area smoke detectors are readily visible and usually appear on the ceiling level of a room.
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Duct smoke detectors are also designed to detect smoke. What are duct smoke detectors
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and why are they necessary? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔Duct smoke
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detectors are positioned to detect smoke particles in the duct work associated with the Heat, ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. Upon detecting smoke, the duct smoke
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detectors activate a fire alarm signal and commences the process of controlling the smoke ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
by closing smoke dampers and shutting down HVAC fans.
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10- In all instances when the system is "off-line" with the central station, what must the FLS
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Director do to ensure a Fire Department response and why? Explain your answers. - correct
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answer✔✔The Fire and Life Safety Director must call 911 upon activation of a fire alarm
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since being "off-line" prohibits the central station from transmitting the signal to the Fire
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Department. When the system is "off-line", the Fire and Life Safety Director or FLS Building ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Evacuation Supervisor, as a "Rule of Thumb", must remain at the Fire Alarm Control Panel
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until the system is back "on-line". ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
11- A "drain down" occurs when the building engineers have to drain the water from the
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branch lines on a floor in order to perform work on the sprinkler system. Will the fire alarm
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activate when the water is drained from the branch lines or when the branch lines are
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refilled with water after the work is completed? Explain your answer. - correct ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
answer✔✔Because of the location of the Waterflow Switch in the fire suppression system, it ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
will only activate when the Branch Lines are re-filled. If the Waterflow switch is not
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disabled upon the drain down, it will not activate a fire alarm signal, but the Tamper Switch ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
will transmit a signal to the Fire Alarm Control Panel.
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, 12. What is the purpose of the OS&Y valve? Why is it chained/padlocked in the open
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position even when a Tamper Switch already exists? Explain your answer. - correct ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
answer✔✔The OS&Y valves cut off water to the fire suppression system, therefore as a ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
precautionary measure the valves are usually chained/padlocked in the open position even ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
when monitored by Tamper Switches, this will prevent anyone from physically attempting
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to close the valve.
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13. Besides asking someone or searching online, where can a person find the name of the
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FLS Director in a Group "R-1" hotel? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔The Fire and
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Life Safety Director's name appears in the Fire Safety and Emergency Action Plan.
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14. The stairwell design that allows tenants to travel freely between two or more floors is
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known as an access stair or "convenience stair." Why it is critical for all access stairs in the
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building to be listed in the Comprehensive Fire Safety and Emergency Action Plan? Explain ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
your answer. - correct answer✔✔Access stairs are listed in the Fire Safety and Emergency
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Action Plan because they are a means of smoke spread to all the floors connected by the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
access stairs. Upon a fire condition all the floors connected by access stairs must be in-
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building relocated or evacuated, depending on the location of the access stairs. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
15. If alarm-sending devices are disabled (by-passed) where necessary, for example, due to
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construction work, it is also necessary to go "off-line". Is this statement true or false? ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔False. When a peripheral device such as a smoke ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
detector is disabled, the smoke detector will not activate a fire alarm signal to the Fire ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Alarm Control Panel, therefore a fire alarm signal will not be transmitted to the central
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station. Hence, there is no need to take the system "off-line" since the Fire Department will ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
not be responding to the property.
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16. Manual pull stations are programmed to not activate fail-safe door release due to
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security concerns. This then prevents the fire alarm from being transmitted to the Fire ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Department. True or false? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔False. The fail-safe ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
door release system is mutually exclusive from "taking the system off-line". The activation of
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verified detailed answers ||\\//|| ||\\//||
1-Manual pull stations are red. Those in Group "B" buildings and Group "R-1" hotels have a ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
one-inch diagonal white stripe from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. What is ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
the meaning of the white stripe? Why are these white-striped pull stations found in "B" and
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"R-1" properties? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔The white stripe indicates that
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when a manual pull station is activated, the fire alarm signal will be automatically sent to
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the Fire Alarm Control Panel, the Central Station and the Fire Department. Group "B" and
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"R-1" properties must have the fire alarm systems monitored by Central Stations; therefore,
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the fire alarm does not stay "in-house." Note: The 2008 Fire Code mandated that all
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buildings with fire alarm systems have central station monitoring, regardless of whether the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
manual pull stations have the white stripe.
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2-A smoke detector is designed to detect smoke and activate a fire alarm. Why must area
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smoke detectors be located in elevator lobbies? Explain your answer. - correct
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answer✔✔Area smoke detectors must be located in elevator lobbies to activate elevator ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
recall. The elevator lobby area smoke detectors activate because there is smoke in the
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elevator lobby, hence the proximity of the smoke to the elevators and their occupants is
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prioritized and the elevators recall to the Ground Floor or lowest terminal landing to ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
protect the elevator occupants and allow them to escape the property. When two smoke
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detectors are located in elevator lobbies, they must both activate to sound the alarm and ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
recall the elevators. They are known as "cross-over smoke detectors."
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3-A "sky lobby" is an upper floor where passengers must transfer from one elevator bank to
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another to reach the desired floor. In a two-bank building, will there be a blind shaft on the
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bank that services the higher floors? Yes/No? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔No.
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A sky lobby exists when passengers must transfer from one elevator bank to another
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elevator bank to reach the desired floor. The option of getting in the high-rise bank ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
elevators on the lobby level does not exist. Therefore, the high-rise bank elevators are not ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
express elevators. In the high-rise bank, the space between the second floor and the sky
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lobby floor consists of office space. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
,4- The FLS Building Evacuation Supervisor is not required to hold a certificate of fitness
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FLS Director but must have a certificate of fitness fire guard in the event there is a torch
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operations job scheduled when the building has 500 people or less. True or false? Explain ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
your answer. - correct answer✔✔False. The FLS Building Evacuation Supervisor (FLS BES)
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is not required to hold a Certificate of Fitness of any category. Because the FLS BES must be
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available to respond to the Fire Alarm Control Panel when the building has 450 occupants
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or less and a fire alarm activates, then it is impossible for the FLS BES to oversee torch
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operations as a Fire Guard, even if the FLS BES did in fact have a Certificate of Fitness Fire ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Guard F-60. ||\\//||
5- The heat that is generated by the sun is transferred via radiation. Why is it not via
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conduction? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔Heat transfer via conduction requires ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
an intervening medium (direct contact) that allows the heat to transfer from point "A" to
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point "B." For example, a metal pipe heated at one end will eventually heat the opposite end
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and anything touching the pipe. There is no solid object connecting the sun to Earth. Heat
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transfer from the sun is via Radiation (electromagnetic waves). ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
6- The ball-drip valve in a fire suppression system is located on the first sub-Grade level of a
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building. Why is it not located on another level? Explain your answer. - correct
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answer✔✔The Ball-Drip Valve is designed to detect when the Lower Check Valve in the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
system is defective or has failed completely. It is also designed to drip excess water from the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
pipe between the Fire Department Connection and the Lower Check Valve to prevent the
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water from freezing after the Fire Department disconnects the fire hoses from the Fire
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Department Connection. Hence, the Ball-Drip Valve must be at a level that is lower (Cellar ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
level) than the location of the Fire Department Connections (street level). ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
7- aww If a FLS Director is not required to be present in a Group "B" building, then who is
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required to be in the building to address fire and non-fire emergencies in the absence of the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
FLS Director? And, what determines when a FLS Director is required to be in the building?
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Explain your answers. - correct answer✔✔The FLS Building Evacuation Supervisor (FLS ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
BES) is required to be in the Group "B" property when the Fire and Life Safety Director is
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not required to be in the property. A Fire and Life Safety Director is required to be in the
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property when there are more than 450 in the entire building or more than 100 people ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
,above or below the Ground Floor, excluding the Ground Floor; and during normal business
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hours of the building. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
8- No fire alarm activation goes directly from an alarm-sending device to the Fire
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Department. In a fire alarm system, where do all fire alarms first report the activation of an ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
alarm-sending device and why? Explain your answers. - correct answer✔✔All automatic ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
and manual alarm-sending (peripheral) devices first send the signal to the Fire Alarm
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Control Panel to alert the Fire and Life Safety Director that a fire alarm has activated. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
9- Area smoke detectors are readily visible and usually appear on the ceiling level of a room.
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Duct smoke detectors are also designed to detect smoke. What are duct smoke detectors
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and why are they necessary? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔Duct smoke
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detectors are positioned to detect smoke particles in the duct work associated with the Heat, ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. Upon detecting smoke, the duct smoke
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detectors activate a fire alarm signal and commences the process of controlling the smoke ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
by closing smoke dampers and shutting down HVAC fans.
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10- In all instances when the system is "off-line" with the central station, what must the FLS
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Director do to ensure a Fire Department response and why? Explain your answers. - correct
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answer✔✔The Fire and Life Safety Director must call 911 upon activation of a fire alarm
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since being "off-line" prohibits the central station from transmitting the signal to the Fire
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Department. When the system is "off-line", the Fire and Life Safety Director or FLS Building ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Evacuation Supervisor, as a "Rule of Thumb", must remain at the Fire Alarm Control Panel
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until the system is back "on-line". ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
11- A "drain down" occurs when the building engineers have to drain the water from the
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branch lines on a floor in order to perform work on the sprinkler system. Will the fire alarm
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activate when the water is drained from the branch lines or when the branch lines are
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refilled with water after the work is completed? Explain your answer. - correct ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
answer✔✔Because of the location of the Waterflow Switch in the fire suppression system, it ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
will only activate when the Branch Lines are re-filled. If the Waterflow switch is not
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disabled upon the drain down, it will not activate a fire alarm signal, but the Tamper Switch ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
will transmit a signal to the Fire Alarm Control Panel.
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, 12. What is the purpose of the OS&Y valve? Why is it chained/padlocked in the open
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position even when a Tamper Switch already exists? Explain your answer. - correct ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
answer✔✔The OS&Y valves cut off water to the fire suppression system, therefore as a ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
precautionary measure the valves are usually chained/padlocked in the open position even ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
when monitored by Tamper Switches, this will prevent anyone from physically attempting
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to close the valve.
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13. Besides asking someone or searching online, where can a person find the name of the
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FLS Director in a Group "R-1" hotel? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔The Fire and
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Life Safety Director's name appears in the Fire Safety and Emergency Action Plan.
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14. The stairwell design that allows tenants to travel freely between two or more floors is
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known as an access stair or "convenience stair." Why it is critical for all access stairs in the
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building to be listed in the Comprehensive Fire Safety and Emergency Action Plan? Explain ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
your answer. - correct answer✔✔Access stairs are listed in the Fire Safety and Emergency
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Action Plan because they are a means of smoke spread to all the floors connected by the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
access stairs. Upon a fire condition all the floors connected by access stairs must be in-
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building relocated or evacuated, depending on the location of the access stairs. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
15. If alarm-sending devices are disabled (by-passed) where necessary, for example, due to
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construction work, it is also necessary to go "off-line". Is this statement true or false? ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔False. When a peripheral device such as a smoke ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
detector is disabled, the smoke detector will not activate a fire alarm signal to the Fire ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Alarm Control Panel, therefore a fire alarm signal will not be transmitted to the central
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station. Hence, there is no need to take the system "off-line" since the Fire Department will ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
not be responding to the property.
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16. Manual pull stations are programmed to not activate fail-safe door release due to
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security concerns. This then prevents the fire alarm from being transmitted to the Fire ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Department. True or false? Explain your answer. - correct answer✔✔False. The fail-safe ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
door release system is mutually exclusive from "taking the system off-line". The activation of
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