FDNY COF F-07 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Building Occupants - Answers - All persons in the building, including employees,
tenants, building staff, and visitors
Central Station Company - Answers - A facility that receives alarm signals from a
protected premise and re-transmits or otherwise reports such alarm signals to the FDNY
Evacuation - Answers - the emptying of a building of all building occupants in response
to a fire or an emergency
Emergency Preparedness Plan - Answers - The fire safety and evacuation
plan/emergency action plan
Fire and Emergency Preparedness Staff - Answers - The individuals identified in the
emergency preparedness plan as responsible for the implementation of such plan
Fire Drill - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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) - Answers - 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 - Answers - A manually operated device used to initiate an
alarm signal
Mixed Occupancy Building - Answers - 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 - Answers - A biological chemical or nuclear ingredient or release
(explosion, natural disaster or other emergency affecting premises)
Non-Fire Emergency Drill - Answers - Training exercise practice procedures for
evacuation
Off-line - Answers - 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 - Answers - Make announcements from lobby to
building occupants in their apartments, offices, classrooms, etc.
Owner - Answers - the fee owner or lessee of the building
Partial Evacuation - Answers - the emptying of a building of some but not all building
occupants in response to a fire or an emergency.
Public Address System - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - the precaution of directing building occupants to remain
indoors at their present location
Two-Way Communication - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - Failed to function as designed as a result of improper
installation - lack of maintenance
Building Occupants - Answers - All persons in the building, including employees,
tenants, building staff, and visitors
Central Station Company - Answers - A facility that receives alarm signals from a
protected premise and re-transmits or otherwise reports such alarm signals to the FDNY
Evacuation - Answers - the emptying of a building of all building occupants in response
to a fire or an emergency
Emergency Preparedness Plan - Answers - The fire safety and evacuation
plan/emergency action plan
Fire and Emergency Preparedness Staff - Answers - The individuals identified in the
emergency preparedness plan as responsible for the implementation of such plan
Fire Drill - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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) - Answers - 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 - Answers - A manually operated device used to initiate an
alarm signal
Mixed Occupancy Building - Answers - 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 - Answers - A biological chemical or nuclear ingredient or release
(explosion, natural disaster or other emergency affecting premises)
Non-Fire Emergency Drill - Answers - Training exercise practice procedures for
evacuation
Off-line - Answers - 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 - Answers - Make announcements from lobby to
building occupants in their apartments, offices, classrooms, etc.
Owner - Answers - the fee owner or lessee of the building
Partial Evacuation - Answers - the emptying of a building of some but not all building
occupants in response to a fire or an emergency.
Public Address System - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - the precaution of directing building occupants to remain
indoors at their present location
Two-Way Communication - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - Failed to function as designed as a result of improper
installation - lack of maintenance
