F-07 FIRE AND EMERGENCY DRILL CONDUCTOR
Building Occupants - Answers -All persons in the building, including employees, building
personnel and visitors
central station company - Answers -a facility that receives alarm signals from a
protected premises and retransmits or otherwise reports such alarm signals to FDNY
evacuation - Answers -the emptying of a building of all building occupants in response
to a fire or an emergency
emergency preparedness plan - Answers -ensures that in the even of a fire or non-fire
emergency, there are procedures in place that can be timely implemented to provide the
information, guidance, direction, and assistance needed to protect the safety of building
occupants, including, if necessary, effecting their evacuation, relocation, or sheltering in
place.
emergency preparedness plan - Answers -also known as fire safety and evacuation
plan and/or emergency action plan
fire and emergency preparedness (FEP) 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 sheltering in place,
in-building relocation, partial evacuation, evacuation, or any combination thereof, in the
event of a fire, in accordance with the emergency preparedness plan for the premises
fire protection system - Answers -Approved devices, equipment and systems or
combinations of systems used to detect a fire, activate an alarm, extinguish or control a
fire, control or manage smoke and products of a fire or any combination thereof,
including fire extinguishing systems, fire alarm systems, 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 within 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
, 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. Enable voice communications from a central location, usually in
the lobby.
regular business hours - Answers -any time and day in which the referenced building is
open to the public or business is being conducted.
shelter in place - Answers -the precaution of directing building occupants to remain
indoors, at their present location, in response to a fire or non-fire emergency
two-way voice communication - Answers -a form of transmission in which both parties
involved have the ability to transmit information. Enables the FEDC, staff, or fire
department personnel to communicate with building occupants or each other throughout
the building. 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.
two-way voice communication - Answers -uses warden phones that are placed at
several locations throughout the building, usually near the exit stairways
unnecessary alarm - Answers -an alarm signal transmitted by a fire alarm system which
functioned as designed, but for which a department response proved unnecessary. AN
example is an alarm triggered by smoke from a lit cigarette in a non-smoking area,
when the presence of smoke does not implicate fire safety concerns.
unwarranted alarm - Answers -an alarm signal transmitted by a fire alarm system which
failed to function as designed as a result of improper installation, improper maintenance,
malfunction, or other factor. Examples are alarms resulting from improper smoke
detector placement, improper detector setting for installed location, lack of system
maintenance, and control panel malfunction.
voice communication capability - Answers -the ability to communicate to the occupants
of a building or occupancy, whether by means of a fire alarm system with one-way or
two-way voice communication or other approved means of communication.
Building occupants - Answers -All people in the building
Central Station Company - Answers -A facility that receives alarm signals from a
protected premises and retransmits them to the FDNY
Evacuation - Answers -Emptying of a building of all occupants due to fire or emergency
Building Occupants - Answers -All persons in the building, including employees, building
personnel and visitors
central station company - Answers -a facility that receives alarm signals from a
protected premises and retransmits or otherwise reports such alarm signals to FDNY
evacuation - Answers -the emptying of a building of all building occupants in response
to a fire or an emergency
emergency preparedness plan - Answers -ensures that in the even of a fire or non-fire
emergency, there are procedures in place that can be timely implemented to provide the
information, guidance, direction, and assistance needed to protect the safety of building
occupants, including, if necessary, effecting their evacuation, relocation, or sheltering in
place.
emergency preparedness plan - Answers -also known as fire safety and evacuation
plan and/or emergency action plan
fire and emergency preparedness (FEP) 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 sheltering in place,
in-building relocation, partial evacuation, evacuation, or any combination thereof, in the
event of a fire, in accordance with the emergency preparedness plan for the premises
fire protection system - Answers -Approved devices, equipment and systems or
combinations of systems used to detect a fire, activate an alarm, extinguish or control a
fire, control or manage smoke and products of a fire or any combination thereof,
including fire extinguishing systems, fire alarm systems, 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 within 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
, 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. Enable voice communications from a central location, usually in
the lobby.
regular business hours - Answers -any time and day in which the referenced building is
open to the public or business is being conducted.
shelter in place - Answers -the precaution of directing building occupants to remain
indoors, at their present location, in response to a fire or non-fire emergency
two-way voice communication - Answers -a form of transmission in which both parties
involved have the ability to transmit information. Enables the FEDC, staff, or fire
department personnel to communicate with building occupants or each other throughout
the building. 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.
two-way voice communication - Answers -uses warden phones that are placed at
several locations throughout the building, usually near the exit stairways
unnecessary alarm - Answers -an alarm signal transmitted by a fire alarm system which
functioned as designed, but for which a department response proved unnecessary. AN
example is an alarm triggered by smoke from a lit cigarette in a non-smoking area,
when the presence of smoke does not implicate fire safety concerns.
unwarranted alarm - Answers -an alarm signal transmitted by a fire alarm system which
failed to function as designed as a result of improper installation, improper maintenance,
malfunction, or other factor. Examples are alarms resulting from improper smoke
detector placement, improper detector setting for installed location, lack of system
maintenance, and control panel malfunction.
voice communication capability - Answers -the ability to communicate to the occupants
of a building or occupancy, whether by means of a fire alarm system with one-way or
two-way voice communication or other approved means of communication.
Building occupants - Answers -All people in the building
Central Station Company - Answers -A facility that receives alarm signals from a
protected premises and retransmits them to the FDNY
Evacuation - Answers -Emptying of a building of all occupants due to fire or emergency
