Chapter 26 Fire Prevention

Question 1

The decision to issue a Fire Ban is based on a consideration of six code components that make up the Fire Weather Index System what are they?

Answer 1

Fine Fuel Moisture Code
Duff Moisture Code
Drought Code
Initial Spread Index
Build Up Index
Fire Weather Index

Question 2

Some examples of common fire hazards are

Answer 2

Heating and cooking equipment
Smoking and matches
Housekeeping (environmental control)
Electrical power and equipment
Fumigation and insecticides
Air conditioning and ventilating systems
Cleaning agents, compounds, and equipment
Storage incompatibility

Question 3

What is a personal hazard in relation to fire prevention

Answer 3

The term “personal hazard” covers all of the traits, habits, and personalities of the people who supervise, work in, live in, or visit the property or building in question.

Question 4

Some materials and processes that constitute special hazard occupancy include

Answer 4

Painting
Welding
Chemicals
Acids
Flammable liquids
Explosives
Gas
Dust

Question 5

Some examples of target hazards are

Answer 5

Lumber yards
Public assembly buildings
Area shopping centers
Row Housing
Flammable liquid bulk storage
Fur storage
Hospitals
Schools

Question 6

What is a Special fire hazard as it relates to fire prevention

Answer 6

Special fire hazards arise from the processes or operations that take place in a particular occupancy.

Question 7

What are target hazards as they relate to fire prevention

Answer 7

A target hazard is a condition, facility, or process that could produce or stimulate a fire involving a possible large life loss, a large fire loss, a large concentration of material that would burn rapidly, or a concentration of materials of high monetary value.

Question 8

What is an exposure hazard as it relates to fire prevention

Answer 8

An exposure hazard is property that, when burning, may endanger nearby property or structures by fire that may extend from the exposed hazard.

Question 9

Factors that will affect minimum distance and protection criteria in relation to an exposure hazard property are

Answer 9

Construction (both the number of storeys and the combustibility of the material involved)
Occupancy
Area (square meters or feet of space per floor)

Question 10

Occupancies are classified as

Answer 10

light, ordinary, or extra hazard based on the concentration of combustible storage, the process involved, and the number of occupants.

Question 11

What is Conflagration

Answer 11

From a fire protection standpoint, the term conflagration applies to sweeping fires that spread beyond control over a large area, crossing natural or prepared barriers and destroying many buildings.

Question 12

Very run-down structures, and those in which especially dangerous enterprises are carried on, are called

Answer 12

conflagration breeders

Question 13

List some of the Inspection objectives

Answer 13

• To learn about the occupancy and the conditions in which it is operating.
• To observe and compare what is found during the inspection with the applicable Regulations and Codes.
• To record the findings of the inspection, the corrections needed, and the action taken to achieve reasonable compliance with Fire Regulations and Codes.
• To ensure that the minimum fire safety requirements are put into effect, and if not, to use the inspection record as a basis for legal action.

Question 14

What is the purpose of public education?

Answer 14

• To establish behaviour and attitudes in people that will impact positively on fire situations. Fire safety education stresses the learning of specific behaviours that will help prevent fires from starting and will enable correct responses in fire emergencies.

Question 15

What steps should be taken in developing and implementing a fire safety education program?

Answer 15

• Identify the most important local fire problems. This includes the identification of fire hazards, high risk locations, high risk times, high risk victims and high risk behaviour.
• Select target audiences and program objectives for each target audience.
• Determine the content and format of each program.
• The implementation of each program which includes the production of materials required for these programs.
• Evaluation of each program to determine what impact it has on fire safety.

Question 16

List some of the agencies that the fire prevention branch may interact with.

Answer 16

• Various government departments Municipal, provincial, and Federal /
• Private consulting firms
• Private industry, which can supply technical data regarding the products they manufacture and sell.
• Organizations that have testing facilities.
• Private interests such as insurance organizations.

Question 17

Enforcement of fire code violations

Answer 17

Fire code violations which are not corrected after due process procedures such as the issuing of field notices, corrective letters, or Orders under the Safety Codes Act, will be dealt with by the Provincial Court of Alberta.