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Chronological Format - ️️Arranges file contents by date, usually with the most recent activity at the front of the file. Fire Protection Engineer - ️️A member of the fire department who works with building owners to ensure that their fire suppression and detection systems will meet code...

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Alabama Fire College: Fire Inspector 1
Chronological Format - ✔️✔️Arranges file contents by date, usually with the most
recent activity at the front of the file.

Fire Protection Engineer - ✔️✔️A member of the fire department who works with
building owners to ensure that their fire suppression and detection systems will meet
code and function as needed.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - ✔️✔️Signed into law on July 4, 1966 by President
Lyndon B. Johnson, allows public access to government records.

Field Notes - ✔️✔️The original, on-scene description of conditions that existed at the
time of the fire inspection.

NFPA 170 - ✔️✔️Standard for Fire Safety and Emergency Symbols

Chronological
Functional - ✔️✔️What are the two common file formats?


Functional File Format - ✔️✔️Groups file information into section by activity type.


Fire and life safety education specialist - ✔️✔️A member of the fire department who
deals with the public on education, fire safety, and juvenile fire safety programs.

skills and knowledge necessary to conduct, coordinate, and complete an investigation.

Performance-based code - ✔️✔️Outlines the requirement that a design has to meet,
but does not state that a particular method or material must be used to meet the
requirement.

Prescriptive Code - ✔️✔️Defines the specifics of a material of construction or action to
be taken

Standard - ✔️✔️A document, the main text of which contains only mandatory
provisions using the word "shall" to indicate requirements and that is in a form generally
suitable for mandatory reference by another standard or code or for adoption into law.

Permit - ✔️✔️A document issued by the authority having jurisdiction for the purpose of
authorizing performance of a specified activity.

,NFPA 1031 - ✔️✔️Standard for Professional Qualifications for Fire Inspector and Plan
Examiner.

Prescriptive Code
Performance-based Code - ✔️✔️Codes that are used during the fire inspection
process

Annealed - ✔️✔️The process of forming standard glass

Awning Windows - ✔️✔️Windows that have one large or two medium-size panels,
which are operated by a hand crank from the corner of the window.

Balloon-frame Construction - ✔️✔️An older type of wood frame construction in which
the wall studs extend vertically from the basement of a structure to the roof without any
fire stops.

Bowstring Trusses - ✔️✔️Trusses that are curved on the top and straight on the
bottom.

Casement Windows - ✔️✔️Windows in a steel or wood frame that open away from the
building via a crank mechanism.

Combustibility - ✔️✔️The property describing whether a material will burn and how
quickly it will burn.

Continuous Beam - ✔️✔️A beam supported at three or more points.

Curtain Walls - ✔️✔️Nonbearing walls that are used to separate the inside and outside
of the building, but that are not part of the support structure for the building.

Dead Load - ✔️✔️The weight of a building, consists of the weight of all materials of
construction incorporated into a building.

Double-hung Windows - ✔️✔️Windows that have two movable sashes that can go up
and down.

Double-pane Glass - ✔️✔️A window design that traps air or inert gas between two
pieces of glass to help insulate a house.

Fire Enclosure - ✔️✔️A fire-rated assembly used to enclose a vertical opening such as
a stairwell, elevator shaft, and chase for building utilities.

Fire Partition - ✔️✔️An interior wall extending from the floor to the underside of the
floor above.

, Fire Wall - ✔️✔️A wall with a fire-resistive rating and structural stability that separates
buildings or subdivides a building to prevent the spread of fire.

Fire Window - ✔️✔️A window or glass block assembly with a fire-resistive rating

Girder - ✔️✔️A beam that supports other beams.

Gypsum - ✔️✔️A naturally occurring material composed of calcium sulfate and water
molecules.

Glazed - ✔️✔️Transparent Glass

Hardware - ✔️✔️The parts of a door or window that enable it to be locked or opened.

Hollow-core - ✔️✔️A door made of panels that are honeycombed inside, creating an
inexpensive and lightweight design.

Interior Finish - ✔️✔️Any coating or veneer applied as a finish to a bulkhead, structural
insulation, or overhead, including the visible finish, all intermediate materials, and all
application materials and adhesives.

Jalousie Windows - ✔️✔️Windows made of small slats of tempered glass, which
overlap each other when the window is closed.

Jamb - ✔️✔️The part of a doorway that secures the door to the studs in a building

Laminated Glass - ✔️✔️Glass manufactured with a thin vinyl core covered by glass on
each side of the core

Live Load - ✔️✔️The weight of the building's contents.

Load-bearing Wall - ✔️✔️A wall that is designed to provide structural support for a
building

Masonry - ✔️✔️A built-up unit of construction or combination of materials such as
brick, clay tiles, or stones set in mortar.

Nonbearing Wall - ✔️✔️A wall that is designed to support only the weight of the wall
itself.

Parallel Chord Trusses - ✔️✔️Trusses in which the top and bottom chords are parallel.

Parapet Wall - ✔️✔️Walls on a flat roof that extend aboce the roofline.

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