FDNY COF F-07 EXAM | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
100% COORECT.
Building Occupants - All persons in the building, including employees, tenants, building
staff, and visitors
Central Station Company - A facility that receives alarm signals from a protected
premise and re-transmits or otherwise reports such alarm signals to the FDNY
Evacuation - the emptying of a building of all building occupants in response to a fire or
an emergency
Emergency Preparedness Plan - The fire safety and evacuation plan/emergency action
plan
Fire and Emergency Preparedness Staff - The individuals identified in the emergency
preparedness plan as responsible for the implementation of such plan
Fire Drill - 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.
Fire Protective System - 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
In-Building Relocation - 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
In- Building Relocation Area (IBRA) - A designated area in a building to which building
occupants may be relocated to in accordance with the emergency preparedness plan
for the premises
Manual Fire Alarm Box - A manually operated device used to initiate an alarm signal
Mixed Occupancy Building - 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)
Non-Fire Emergency - A biological chemical or nuclear ingredient or release (explosion,
natural disaster or other emergency affecting premises)
Non-Fire Emergency Drill - Training exercise practice procedures for evacuation
Off-line - 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.
One-Way Voice Communication - Make announcements from lobby to building
occupants in their apartments, offices, classrooms, etc.
Owner - the fee owner or lessee of the building
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. Public Address systems enable voice communications from a central location,
usually in the building lobby.
Regular Business Hours - 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.
Shelter in Place - the precaution of directing building occupants to remain indoors at
their present location
Two-Way Communication - 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.
Unnecessary Alarm - 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
Unwarranted Alarm - Failed to function as designed as a result of improper installation -
lack of maintenance
100% COORECT.
Building Occupants - All persons in the building, including employees, tenants, building
staff, and visitors
Central Station Company - A facility that receives alarm signals from a protected
premise and re-transmits or otherwise reports such alarm signals to the FDNY
Evacuation - the emptying of a building of all building occupants in response to a fire or
an emergency
Emergency Preparedness Plan - The fire safety and evacuation plan/emergency action
plan
Fire and Emergency Preparedness Staff - The individuals identified in the emergency
preparedness plan as responsible for the implementation of such plan
Fire Drill - 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.
Fire Protective System - 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
In-Building Relocation - 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
In- Building Relocation Area (IBRA) - A designated area in a building to which building
occupants may be relocated to in accordance with the emergency preparedness plan
for the premises
Manual Fire Alarm Box - A manually operated device used to initiate an alarm signal
Mixed Occupancy Building - 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)
Non-Fire Emergency - A biological chemical or nuclear ingredient or release (explosion,
natural disaster or other emergency affecting premises)
Non-Fire Emergency Drill - Training exercise practice procedures for evacuation
Off-line - 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.
One-Way Voice Communication - Make announcements from lobby to building
occupants in their apartments, offices, classrooms, etc.
Owner - the fee owner or lessee of the building
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. Public Address systems enable voice communications from a central location,
usually in the building lobby.
Regular Business Hours - 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.
Shelter in Place - the precaution of directing building occupants to remain indoors at
their present location
Two-Way Communication - 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.
Unnecessary Alarm - 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
Unwarranted Alarm - Failed to function as designed as a result of improper installation -
lack of maintenance
