Fire Alarm
A wall mounted device that when activated, will cause the fire alarm system to sound.
What is a Manual Pull Station?
These devices are used to prevent cross-contamination of water.
What is a Backflow?
This fire extinguisher uses distilled water and discharges it as a fine spray instead of a solid stream.
What is a Water Mist?
Fire and safety standards organization that uses a consensus process to develop model fire prevention codes and firefighter standards.
What is National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)?
A source of danger of personal injury or property damage
What is a Hazard?
A signal that indicates a fault in a circuit or system component.
What is a Trouble Signal?
A device designed to deliver a calculated volume of water at a specific pressure.
What is a Fire Pump?
A form of fixed temperature heat detecting device sometimes employed to restrain the operation of an electrical or mechanical control until its designed temperature is reached
What is a Fusible Link?
Sets the minimum standards for commercial fire alarm installation, performance, testing, inspection, and maintenance.
What is NFPA72?
A document which outlines the responsibilities of the building's occupants in the event of a fire.
What is a Fire Safety Plan?
A component such as a smoke detector or pull station that transmits an alarm signal to a control panel.
What is an Initiating Device?
Mechanical means for stopping and starting flow in a conduit.
What is a Valve?
This fire extinguisher is used for fires involving combustible metals.
What is a class D extinguisher?
A condition that interferes with the service or reliability for which the part, system, or equipment was intended.
what is a Deficiency?
Equipment worn to minimize exposure to a variety of hazards.
What is a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
A circuit to which initiating devices are connected.
What is a Notification Appliance Circuit?
Type of system in which sprinkler heads do not have individual valves, and the water is disbursed from all sprinkler heads simultaneously
What is a Deluge System?
This system is designed to protect a particularly sensitive or valuable asset, or that is used in an application where fire sprinklers are not appropriate.
What is a Special Hazard System?
The act of performing regularly scheduled maintenance activities to help prevent unexpected failures in the future.
What is a Preventative Maintenance?
This method used to explain how to operate an extinguisher.
What is P.A.S.S. (Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep)?
A two-way circuit pathway between all addressable devices and the FACP.
What is a Signaling Line Circuit (SLC)?
A system of pipes inside a building for conducting water for firehose attachments.
What is a Standpipe System?
This standard significantly changed the design criteria for Kitchen Systems
What is a UL300?
Visual indication that a system is impaired or non-operational, causing the system to be out of service and out of compliance with NFPA standards.
What is a Red Tag?
This is made up of the following elements: heat, fuel, and oxygen
What is a Fire Triangle?