Alabama Fire College: Fire Inspector 1
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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.
Partition Wall - ✔️✔️A non-load-bearing wall that subdivides spaces within any story of
a building or room.
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.
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
Fire Enclosure - ✔️✔️A fire-rated assembly used to enclose a vertical opening such as
a stairwell, elevator shaft, and chase for building utilities.
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.
Party Wall - ✔️✔️A wall constructed on the line between two properties.
Pitched Chord Truss - ✔️✔️Type of truss typically used to support a sloping roof
Platform-framed Construction - ✔️✔️Construction technique for building the frame of
the structure one floor at a time.
Pyrolysis - ✔️✔️The Destructive distillation of organic compounds in a n oxygen-free
environment that converts the organic matter into gases, liquids, and char.
Plate Glass - ✔️✔️A type of glass that has additional strength so it can be formed in
larger sheets, but will still shatter upon impact.
Projected Windows - ✔️✔️Windows that project inward or outward on and upper hinge
Rafters - ✔️✔️Joists that are mounted in an inclined position to support a roof.
Simple Beam - ✔️✔️Supported at two points neat its ends.
Spalling - ✔️✔️Chipping or pitting of concrete or masonry surfaces
Solid-core - ✔️✔️A door design that consists of wood filler pieces inside the door.
Tempered Glass - ✔️✔️Glass that is much stronger and harder to break than ordinary
glass.
Thermal Conductivity - ✔️✔️A property that describes how quickly a material will
conduct heat.
,Thermoset Material - ✔️✔️A plastic material that, after having been cured by heat or
other means, is substantially infusible and cannot be softened and formed.
Truss - ✔️✔️A collection of lightweight structural components joined in a triangular
configuration that can be used to support wither floors or roofs.
Wired Glass - ✔️✔️Glass made by molding tempered glass around a special wire
mesh.
Slab
Ledge
Panel - ✔️✔️What are the three types of wood swinging doors?
NFPA 80 - ✔️✔️Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives
Ambulatory Health Care Occupancy - ✔️✔️A building or portion thereof used to provide
services or treatment simultaneously to four or more patients that, on an outpatient
basis.
Apartment Building - ✔️✔️A building or portion thereof containing three or more
dwelling units with independent cooking and bathroom facilities.
Assembly Occupancies - ✔️✔️Buildings used for a gathering of 50 or more more
persons for deliberation, worship, entertainment eating drinking, amusement awaiting
transportation or similar uses; or used as a special amusement building regardless of
occupant load.
Business Occupancy - ✔️✔️An occupancy used for the transaction of business other
than mercantile
Day-care Occupancy - ✔️✔️An occupancy in which four or more clients receive care,
maintenance, and supervision, by other than their relatives or legal guardians, for less
than 24 hours per day
Detention and correctional occupancy - ✔️✔️An occupancy used to one or more
persons under varied degrees of restraint or security where such occupants are mostly
incapable of self-preservation because of security measures not under the occupant's
control
Dormitory - ✔️✔️A building or space in a building in which group sleeping
accommodations are provided for more than 16 persons who are not members of the
same family in one room, or a series of closely associated rooms, under joint occupancy
and single management, with or without meals, but without individual cooking facilities.
, Educational Occupancies - ✔️✔️Buildings used for educational purposes through the
twelfth grade by six or more persons for 4 or more hours a day or more than 12 hours a
week.
Health Care Occupancy - ✔️✔️An occupancy used for purposes of medical or other
treatment or care of four or more persons where such occupants are mostly incapable
of self preservation due to age, physical or mental disability or because of security
measures not under the occupants control.
Hotel - ✔️✔️A building or group of buildings under the same management in which
there are sleeping accommodations for more than 16 people and is primarily used by
transients for lodging with or without meals.
Industrial occupancy - ✔️✔️An occupancy in which products are manufactured or in
which processing, assembling, mixing, packaging, finishing, decorating, or repair
operations are conducted.
Mercantile Occupancy - ✔️✔️An occupancy used for the display and sale of
merchandise.
Mixed Occupancy - ✔️✔️A multiple occupancy where the occupancies are
intermingled.
Multiple Occupancy - ✔️✔️A building or structure in which two or more classes of
occupancy exist.
Lodging or rooming house - ✔️✔️Building or portion thereof that does not qualify as a
one- or two-family dwelling, that provides sleeping accommodations for a total of 16 or
fewer people on a transient or permanent basis, without personal care services, with or
without meals, but without separate cooking facilities for individual occupants.
One- or two-family dwelling - ✔️✔️A building that contains no more than two dwelling
units with independents cooking and bathroom facilities.
Residential board and care occupancy - ✔️✔️A building or portion thereof that is used
for lodging and boarding of four or more residents, not related by blood or marriage to
the owners or operators, for the purpose of providing personal care services.
Storage occupancy - ✔️✔️An occupancy used primarily for the storage or sheltering of
goods, merchandise, products, vehicles, or animals.
Separated Occupancy - ✔️✔️A multiple occupancy where the occupancies are
separated by fire resistance-rated assemblies.
