Chapters 7-9 Flashcards
How many stories are garden apartments?
Three to four stories
What made dictate strategy on Garden style Apartments?
Age and physical ability
Load Bearing walls and Garden Apartments are two basic Construction types.
Masonry or wood frame
Garden Apartments typically have how many apartments per floor
Four Apartments per floor
What is critical to success in addict or cock-off fires?
Vertical ventilation
At a minimum, how many EMS support units should be dispatched on the first alarm of a garden apartment?
One at a minimum
One or two story structure that contains two or more businesses or Mercantile occupancies on the ground floor
Strip shopping center
In strip center structures that are one story buildings collapse potential is related directly to what?
Roof construction type
The common attic space or cock Loft allows entering smoke and heat to travel horizontally toward the end of the building this travel is called what?
Mushrooming
A building or structure that was used for manufacturing, warehousing, or sales and currently is not occupied
Vacant commercial building
What vacant commercial buildings pose the most serious problems Under Fire conditions.
Old style Construction because they have minimal fire resistiveness and lack built-in Fire Protection
Steel bar joist roofs have been known to fail in as little as?
9 minutes
In vacant building fires exposures will fall into what two basic categories?
Connected and unconnected exposures
Your decision on the type of fire attack to use must be based on what?
Fire conditions and available resources
Large retail store that merchandises miscellaneous Building Supplies is generally known as what?
Home Improvement centers
What two categories do lumber yards generally fall into?
Traditional and Home Improvement centers
Any building providing transient or short-term housing for fewer than 100 people.
Small hotel or boarding house
Small hotels and boarding houses are typically more than ____ but fewer than _____floors in height
More than 1
Fewer than 8
Blank have to be considered the first line of defense in any residential occupancy
Alarm systems
What type of standpipe systems are normally found in small hotels?
Class II
_____ civilians die in every 1,000 dwelling fires in this country every year.
Seven
______civilians die in every thousand small hotel and boarding house fires each year.
18
Any large retail complex contained Under One Roof with a primary entrances to the various stores being from enclosed walkways
Enclosed Mall
Enclosed malls are typically one to two stories in height but rarely exceed?
Five stories
