Codes
The Chapter of the NYC Fire Code that deals with safety at construction sites.
What is Chapter 14?
This unit is on standby to rescue injured firefighters.
What is the FAST truck? (RIT) (RIC)
SDS
What is a Safety Data Sheet?
The year is 1911 and 146 garment workers are killed in this fire.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
The air tank firefighters wear when operating on the fire ground.
What is SCBA?
NFPA Health and Safety Program.
What is NFPA 1500?
A firefighter who became a famous actor: Starred in Boardwalk Empire, Fargo, Con Air, and the Sopranos.
Who is Steve Buscemi?
Contamination area is known as
What is the hot zone?
The year is 2005, three New York City firefighters are killed at two separate incidents on the same day.
What is Black Sunday?
Also known as sewer gas, this gas smells like rotten eggs and can be found in confined spaces.
What is hydrogen sulfide?
1910.146
What is the permit-required confined space standard?
Rope used by firefighters to rescue civilians.
What is the life safety rope?
The ERG provides a ton of information about hazardous materials
What is the Emergency Response Guidebook?
March 25th, 1990, New York City-Man pours gasoline at the bottom of stairs, ignites vapors, and kills 87 patrons at this nightclub.
What is the Happy Land Social Club?
Steer clear of this zone, 1.5X the vertical height of the building.
What is the collapse zone?
Founded in 1971, enforces workplace safety on the federal level
What is OSHA?
Rope used by firefighters for self-evacuation
What is the Personal Safety System (PSS)?
Gas used in fire extinguishers that cooled fire and displaced oxygen.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The year is 1904, the city is New York, over 1,000 victims died in this boat fire.
What is the General Slocum?
An oxygen-enriched environment is above this percentage of oxygen.
What is 23.5 %?
Chapter in NYC Building Code relating to construction safety.
What is Chapter 33?
The FDNY has this many Rescue companies
What is 5?
The fire tetrahedron is comprised of these elements
What is fuel, heat, oxygen, and the chemical chain reaction?
The year is 1942, the city is Boston, 492 patrons are killed in a nightclub fire.
What is the Coconut Grove Nightclub fire?
An explosion occurs when oxygen is reintroduced into an oxygen-starved stmosphere.