F-02 Fire Guard for Shelter (Citywide) - Vocabulary

Flashcards for reviewing fire safety information related to the F-02 Certificate of Fitness for Fire Guards in Shelters, based on the FDNY study material.

Fire Guard

A person holding a Certificate of Fitness who is trained in and responsible for maintaining a fire watch.

Fire Watch

A temporary measure intended to ensure continuous and systematic surveillance of a building for the purposes of identifying and controlling fire hazards.

Impairment

Any condition in which a fire protection system cannot perform its designed fire safety function.

Impairment Coordinator

The person designated by the building owner responsible for ensuring proper notification and safety precautions when a fire protection system is out of service.

Fire Watch

To ensure continuous and systematic surveillance of a building or portion thereof by one or more qualified individuals for the purposes of identifying and controlling fire hazards, including detecting early signs of fire, raising an alarm of fire, notifying the department, and performing such other fire safety duties as may be prescribed by the commissioner.

Building Occupants

All persons in the shelter, including employees, clients, staff and visitors.

Central Station Company

A facility that receives alarm signals from a protected premise and retransmits or otherwise reports such alarm signals to the FDNY.

Emergency Preparedness Plan

Plans that ensure procedures are in place to protect the safety of building occupants during a fire or non-fire emergency, including evacuation, relocation, or sheltering in place.

Evacuation

The emptying of a building of all building occupants in response to a fire or an emergency.

Fire Alarm System

Any system of components and circuits arranged to monitor and annunciate the status of fire alarm or supervisory signal-initiating devices.

Fire Protection System

Approved devices, equipment, and systems used to detect a fire, activate an alarm, extinguish or control a fire, or manage fire alarm systems, sprinkler systems, and standpipe systems.

Impairment Coordinator

The person designated by the building owner who is responsible for ensuring that proper notification and safety precautions are taken when a standpipe system, sprinkler system or fire alarm system is out of service.

Non-Fire Emergency

A biological, chemical, or nuclear incident or release; declaration of emergency by a lawful authority; explosion; medical emergency; natural disaster; or other emergency affecting the premises or the safety of building occupants.

Two-Way Voice Communication

A form of transmission in which both parties involved can transmit information. This is useful during an emergency and allows staff members to report the conditions of a fire emergency from the fire floor back to the Fire and Life Safety Director or Coordinator of Fire Safety & Alarm Systems in Homeless Shelters or Fire and Emergency Drill Conductor in the lobby at the fire command center. Two-way voice communication uses warden phones that are placed at several locations throughout the building, usually near the exit stairways in the building.

Area Smoke Detector

A device that detects visible or invisible particles of combustion.

Automatic Detection Devices

Detects heat, smoke or the flow of water in a fire alarm system.

Heat Detector

A sensor that detects abnormally high temperatures or rate of temperature rise.

Double action pull stations

Requires two steps in order to activate the alarm. The user must first break a glass, open a door or lift a cover. The user can then gain access to a switch or lever which must then be operated to initiate an alarm.

Single action pull stations

Require only one step to activate the alarm. The cover on these alarm stations serves as a lever.

Carbon Monoxide alarm

A single or multiple-station alarm responsive to carbon monoxide, containing a build- in initiation sensor, notification device, and power supply (battery or electric with battery backup) and is not connected to a system.

Carbon Monoxide detector

A device that is responsive to carbon monoxide and is connected to the fire alarm control panel

Sprinkler Water Flow Detector

A device which initiates an alarm indicating a flow of water in a sprinkler system.

Audio and visual notification devices

Fire alarm system components such as bells, horns, speakers, lights or text displays that provide audible, tactile or visible out puts or any combination.

Sprinklers

Are devices for automatically distributing water on a fire.