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Chapter 1: Vocab
Mitigate
To cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe, intense, or painful
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Fire Detection System
System of detection devices, wiring, and supervisory equipment used for detecting fire or products of combustion and then signaling that these elements are present
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Fire Suppression System
System designed to act directly upon the hazard to mitigate or eliminate it, not simply to detect its pressence and or initiate an alarm
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Standard
Criterion documents that are developed to serve as models or examples of desired performance or behaviors and that contain requirements and specifications outlining minimum levels of performance, protection, or construction
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Code
A collection of rules and regulations enacted by a legislative body to become law in a particular jurisdiction
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Transcription
Method by which an AHJ adopts a code in whole to become a new regulation
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Reference
Method by which an AHJ refers to a code in a regulation and states that the code is legally enforceable
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Consensus Standard
Rules, principles, or measures that are established though agreement of members of the standards-setting organization
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Chapter 1: Notes
Detects hazardous conditions
Fire detection systems
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Those that control or contain hazardous conditions
Fire Suppression system
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Working together, Fire Detection and Suppression Systems...
Decrease loss through prompt notification and early mitigation and control of the fire
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Chapter 1: Notes
Fire Protection can be ? or ?
Passive
Active
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Can be a part of building construction such as concrete firewall or sprayed on structural fire protection. What kind of Fire Protection?
Passive
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They perform with no outside intervention or mechanical support. What kind of Fire Protection?
Passive
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Cannot warn occupants of the dangers of an unwanted fire or suppress a growing fire. What kind of Fire Protection?
Passive
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Those that activate in some fashion during a fire to sound an alarm or contain a small fire. What kind of Fire Protection?
Active
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Require some type of outside intervention or mechanical support such as electricity or a water supply. What kind of Fire Protection?
Active
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Designed to change the course and outcome of a fire in a building. What kind of Fire Protection?
Active
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System that works to benefit the building owner, its occupants, and the responding fire department personnel. What kind of Fire Protection?
Active
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What year was the first fire alarm system installed?
1851
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What year was the first commercially successful automatic fire sprinkler system patented?
1872
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Who and in what year, patented the first heat indicator which sounded a fire alarm when activated?
George Andrew Darby
1902
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What year were battery powered smoke alarms introduced? Who introduced them?
1969
Kenneth House & Randolph Smith
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What Fire happened in Chicago, Illinois in 1903, killed 602 people
Iroquois Theater Fire
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What Fire happened in New York City in 1911, company located in a high rise building, killed 145 people, cause was a cigarette that got tossed into a bin containing scrap material?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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