FLSD Part 1

Occupancy group of business buildings may include banks, civic administration buildings, office spaces, neighborhood family care centers, medical offices

Group B

Occupancy group of hotels

Group R-1

Occupancy group of apartments

Group R-2

A Fire Safety and Evacuation plan is required for Group A occupancies, other than occupancies used exclusively for

purposes of religious worship that have an occupant load less than 2,000.

A Fire Safety and Evacuation plan is required for Group R-1 occupancies by more than

30 lodgers or 15 above street level

Whose obligation is it to prepare a Fire Safety and Evacuation plan or Comprehensive Fire Safety and Emergency Action plan?

The owner

What 4 items are required by the Fire Department to have in the Fire Safety and Evacuation Plan or Comprehensive Fire Safety and Emergency Action Plan?

Floor Plans, Building Information Card (BIC), Floor postings, and Building Profile

What must an owner do who becomes aware that a building occupant is neglecting or failing to cooperate with his or her duties, responsibilities or obligations to comply with the FDNY plan?

Notify the employer of such individual

What must an owner do if a building employer fails to timely correct the condition of an occupant neglecting or failing to cooperate with his or her duties to comply with the FDNY plan?

Notify the Fire Department

Who must ensure Frie Drills are conducted?

The owner

How must Fire Drills be conducted?

In the form of live instruction but may be supplemented by videos and/or educational materials

If a fire is discovered, what is the first task required by the FLSD or other FLSD staff?

Immediately report to 911 a determination to implement the FDNY plan

How must communication about information and directions be done to building occupants whenever the FDNY plan is implemented, including during any drill? (3 items)

By the sounding of an alarm or alert tone, followed by an announcement by the FLSD, and must be repeated or updated on a frequent basis

What is the purpose of the Building Information Card (BIC)? (3 items)

It provides critical building information and floor plans, Summarizes critical facility data, and provides an important reference for first responders

All FLS staff listed in the FDNY plan must receive initial training from who?

The FLS Director

The FLS Director must be present in the building when? (2 items)

All times during regular business hours, and when a building has an occupant load of more than 500 persons / 100 persons above or below the street

Where should the FLS Director be stationed upon a fire, medical emergency, or non-fire emergency?

The Fire Command Center or designated alternative location

What is the exception to the FLSD requirement to conduct drills?

May be conducted by a person holding a Certificate of Fitness as FEP coordinator or fire drill conducto (W-07/F- 07 C of F) under the personal supervision of the FLS Director

How oftern should the availability of FLS Wardens and Deputy Wardens be checked?

FLSD must conduct daily

Who must ensure that the required notices are posted on the floors and that the required recordkeeping is maintained?

The FLS Director

What is the one task a Deputy FLS Director can not perform in the FLS Director's absence?

Personally supervise all FLS Staff traing

How many fire safety brigade members arerequired?

A sufficient number to exercise the authority and perform duties

What must be done for the FLS Staff to maintain their state of readiness?

FLS Director must provide refresher training

Who must review and approve the procedures established by building employers to account for building occupants after an evacuation.

The FLS Director

Can the FLS Director and Deputy FLS Director be designated as FLS brigade members?

No

Where shoud FLS Warden and Brigade members remain during fire?

On the floor below the fire

Evacuation supervisors are only required where?

In office buildings

When are FLS building evacuation supervisors required to be on premise?

All times the FLS Director is not required to be on duty but there are occupants in the building

Who performs FLS Diretor duties in their absence?

Deputy FLS Director

The FLS Director must provide training to who?

All FLS staff listed in the FDNY plan

When must FLS brigade members be on duty?

Regular business hours

How many FLS Wardens are required?

One for each floor

How many Deputy FLS Wardens are required?

One for each employer of building occupants on a floor, occupying up to 7500sf. Additional Wardens required per 7500Sf on one floor

Where are FLS Searchers required to be on premise?

In office buildings

How many FLS Searchers are required?

At least one male and one female searcher are required for each employer of building occupants on a floor.

Who must must perform the duties of the deputy FLS warden in their absence?

The FLS Searcher

Who are Critical operations staff?

Building personnel designated to shut down critical operations, or perform essential services, before they shelter in place, relocate or evacuate.

When can computerized training without live instruction be conducted? (3 items)

When it is interactive, includes an evaluation of understanding of the material, and is not more than one-half (½) of the required training sessions per year.

When should/shouldn't a manual pull stattion be activated?

When fire/smoke conditions are actually observed, not merely when there is the odor of smoke.

Where are Critical operations staff required to be on premise?

In office buildings

What are 4 the non-fire emergency (EAP) actions?

Shelter in place, in-building relocation, partial evacuation, and full evacuation

What are portable fire extinguishers not intended for?

To fight large or spreading fires.

How should a Fire extinguisher be used?

PASS method - Pull pin, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep area

What is the principal attended or unattended location where the status of the detection, alarm communications and control systems is displayed and controlled?

Fire Command Center

What are the most critical areas for immediate evacuation during a fire?

The fire floor and floors immediately above (and below if applicable)

What is the safe area to evacuate or relocate to during a fire?

At least three (3) floors below their present location is generally adequate

Can building occupant use elevators during a non-fire emergency?

No, unless and until theFLS Director authorizes their use

In the event of fire/smoke condition or the activation of a fire alarm on their floor, or the floor above/below, the floor wardens must:

Report to the FLS Warden phone and call the Fire Command Center to inform the FLS Director if there is smoke/fire

How do you determine if it is safe to enter a stairway?

Check doors with the back of hand before opening them

What is the role of the FLS Searcher in the event of fire/smoke conditions or activation of alarm?

Search all areas of the floor to be relocated/evacuated by visual inspection, not merely by the lack of a voice response

Who must check the environment in the stair prior to entry for evacuation?

Floor wardens

What are the three needed components of fires?

Fuel, heat (ignition source), and oxidizing agent (air or oxygen)

Whare the 4 stages of fire?

Incipient, growth, fully developed, and decay/burnout

What stages of fire can a fire extinguisher be used to control?

Incipient only

What are the 3 ways fire spreads?

Conduction (direct contact), convection (flow from hot to cool areas), and radiation (traveling via electromagnetic waves, without objects or gases carrying it along)

What are 3 Special fire dangers on structure fires?

Rollover/flameover, Flashover,and Backdraft

Rollover (Flameover) occurs when:

Ignited gases or burned fuels, rise to the ceiling, and spread out horizontally

Flashover occurs when:

There is is the sudden, simultaneous ignition of everything in a room

Backdraft explosion occurs when:

Oxygen is introduced into a room full of hot gases.

Which is the most dangerous stage of fire development?

Flashover

Installation or maintainence of any fire protection system/device that has the physical appearance of fire protection but does not perform a fire protection function is

Illegal (unlawful)

What is the fire system component that monitors inputs and control outputs through various circuits?

Fire Alarm Control Panel (FACP)

Who is allowed to operate and address alarms and signals at the fire alarm control panel during business hours.

Only persons holding an FLS Director C of F

If a fire alarm signal is generated, the FLS Director must

Treat it as anemergency and perform the required duties and responsibilities

A supervisory signal indicates that:

A system or device being monitored has been compromised or is in an abnormal state

What devices can cause supervisory signals? (4 items)

Control valves, low air pressure switch, water level switch, and pressure tank

Is FDNY dispatches to repond to supervisory signals?

No, they are not indicative of a fire condition.

Trouble signals indicate that:

The alarm system, transmitter, or communications path is wholly/partially out of service.

A trouble signal will ordinarily annunciate:

Audibly and visually at the FACP, which needs to be investigated and corrected.

Is FDNY dispatches to repond to trouble signals?

No, they are not indicative of a fire condition.

What familiarity should the FLS Director have of the central station transmitter box?

Its location

When can the FLSD silence or reset the fire alarm system?

When the condition is verified by FDNY firefighting personnel and told to do so

When a smoke detector reports the need for maintenance to the fire alarm control panel, it must be cleaned within:

1 week

In the event of a fire it is imperative that air movement:

Be shut down

Heat detectors are available in two general types:

Rate-of-rise and fixed temperature

When does a waterflow alarm sound?

When the water starts to flow in the system, sending a signal to the fire alarm control panel.

Once a manual pull station is activated, what order should the devices be reset?

Pull station must be reset prior to resetting the fire alarm control panel

Do manual pull stations always transmit a signal to FDNY?

No, they may not - call 911 or fire dispatcher

What are the 2 types of pull stations:

Single and double action

What must the FLSD know about the building's fire alarm systems power supply?

Its source

What must the FLSD know about the building's fire alarm systems alarms?

Whether they are designed to ring only on the fire floor, floor above/below, or throughout building.

In high-rise buildings, the alarm must sound at a minimum of:

The alarming floor and the floors above/below

The emergency voice/alarm communication system must be designed to:

Broadcast live voice messages

What must happen if an in-building auxiliary radio communication system for fire department use, or part thereof, is out of service?

The FDNY must be notified immediately