Ch 15 pg 391-396

Multiple dwellings are those buildings that house ____ or more families. In some areas, they are called ____ houses or _____

FF tactics must placed a extremely high priority on searching all of the apartments __ and ____ the fire floor, since the occupants of an apartment above may not become aware of the fire until after their means of egress have been blocked

Only an early recognition of the ____ problems will enable us to solve them. In many larger apartment buildings, the officer in command must take into account the ____ factor necessary to implement a ____

One of the first difficulties is to recognize the presence of _____ dwellings. Many are _____ legally or illegally

Illegally converted ones are more dangerous due to no building codes like and _____ stairway, a fire escape or a ____ system

Many areas of the country, response assignments to _____ dwellings are two engines and ___ ladder, whereas an alarm for a large hotel or apartment house will bring ____ or ____ engines and two or more ladders

When you arrive and find a converted multiple dwelling, you just make adjustments and request whatever additional assistance you need, usually personnel for ____ and ____ equipment for removal

Counting ___or ___ meters on the exterior can alert you to multiple dwelling as well as ____ and mailboxes

The presence of ____ on interior rooms usually indicates the presence of ___ where a person or even a whole family rent a single room and shares a ____ and other facilities with the other occupants

A series of catastrophic fires in tenements in New York City in the late ____ showed the need for separating the apartments from the interior stairs. most apartments are now equipped with fire-rate ____ , while the _____ is usually a fire rated enclosure as well

Many codes require that these fire rated doors be equipped with self-___ devices. Unfortunately many people disable these device like ____ citizen apartments and those housing the ____ wheel chairs and walkers

These ____ and ____ pose a danger of fire extending horizontally across the ____( often bypassing a fire wall) as well as vertically due to autoexposure or lapping flames

While waiting for a hoseline fire crews can greatly slow fire spread across these shafts by removing all _____ materials, such as ____ from around windows and by judicious use of portable extinguishers or even ___ of water from the sink. Another method is to open a ___ opposite the shaft

The two greatest threats to a structure in the event of a fire is ____ chases and ____ rails

Elevators are generally required to be built with Atleast __ hour fire resistance ratings , and they don’t generally account for serious ____ hazards. ____, on the other hand have been the cause of several serious fires when rubbish burning within the chute extended to combustible s

If the roof members find a ___ pipe that is hot to the touch inform the members below and begin ____ of the roof adjoining the pipe

Voids from ____ rails are harder to find and can be found in any building that is built with steel columns or I beams supporting the floors. They can appear anywhere in the ____ layout

Architects try to hide channel rails within walls and in ____

Generally steel framing is used in class __ buildings ( ordinary or non fire proof construction) that are more than __ ft wide

It is better to send someone who has seen the location of the ___ that the fire is in to show people where to open up, rather than try to explain over the ____

Ops at multiple dwelling where so many people are trapped should focus on removing those in _____ danger first, while protecting the _____ number in place. This means getting a hoseline in place to protect the ____ stairway

The importance of quickly positioning a hoseline to protect the main ____ artery, the _____ cannot be over emphasized

While waiting for the stairway to clear of occupants, it may be very helpful to send a member with and ___ or other heavy tool to break any windows in the floor ____ or on the stair between the fire floor and the floor above

These windows in the stair landing are often ____ with ___ mesh and require a lot of work to clear. A ___ tool is mandatory

The officer in command of ____ search operation will have to evaluate the wind direction and ___ as well as the degree of danger to civilians who are still located on the ____ above the fire, before deciding to vent the stair window