Basis of Fire Prevention
Factory Mutual engineers perform fire risk reduction and prevention for properties, working on behalf of:
The companies that insurer the properties
The Certified Fire Investigator program produces the only federal investigators trained by a federal law enforcement agency to qualify as expert witnesses in fire cause determination. The program is headed by the:
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
In 1998, the remaining Factory Mutuals merged to form?
FM Global
Because they create uniformity within the state, most business interests and developers prefer?
Mini-Maxi Codes
Which organization input is most valuable in the review and approval of sprinkler, fire alarms, smoke control, and other fire protection systems?
Fire Department
Lost business, psychological damage, medical expenses, temporary lodging, and pets killed are all examples of:
Indirect cost of fire.
Who conducts consumer product safety standards, conducts research, informs and educates the public, and recalls unsafe products when necessary?
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission
The mission of this organization is to protect human life, property, and the environment from fire and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of state fire marshals operations.
National Association of State Fire Marshals
This 2007 fire killed nine firefighters spread quickly because of an illegally constructed loading dock that should have been identified during a fire inspection, but the building had not been inspected since 1998?
Sofa Supper Store
The primary purpose of the plan
review process is to?
Verify that a proposed structure is code compliant before work begins.
This is a not-for profit system in which all policy holders are members of the company; when premiums exceed losses, surplus funds are distributed among the members.
Mutual Fire Insurance
Who preforms the bulk of fire prevention activities in the United States?
Local Fire Prevention Bureaus
What industry is responsible for much of the regulatory system used to prevent fires and reduce fire losses?
Insurance
This may be the most widely used model code in the world?
National Electric Code
Protection provided for building elements from the effects of fire expressed in terms of time is called?
Fire Protection Rating
What are ways in which insurance industry has encouraged fire prevention practices?
1) Insuring well build and well maintained properties
2) Requiring periodic inspections.
3) Requiring high premiums or denying coverage for unsafe practices.
Located in Boise, Idaho and is a cooperative effort among member agencies of the National Wildlife Coordination Group?
National Interagency Fire Center
Fire prevention, fire drills, and fire brigade training are mandated by?
Model Fire Codes
The number of voting delegates in the ICC code change process is based on the?
Population of the jurisdiction
The site plan is normally the ________ plan submitted for review?
First
Who performs fire risk reduction and prevention inspections for properties, working on behalf of the companies that insure the properties?
Factory Mutual Engineers.
This wildland fire took place on October 8, 1871 burning 3,780,000 acres and killed at least 1500 people is called?
Peshitgo Fire
This organization was involved with some of the earliest fire tests conducted on building materials and assemblies in the United States?
Underwriters Laboratories
This organization contains more than 300 codes, standards, guides, and recommended practices?
National Fire Protection Association
The jurisdiction's site plan approval may be subject to certain conditions such as?
buffers between proposed structure
green space
parking restrictions