August 13 (Friday) Discussion

What is the standard form issued by the BFP local offices/fire stations to be filled-up by the applicant which
indicates the basic information of building, facilities or structures and/or establishment? 

a. Inspection Order
b. After Inspection Report
c. Fire Safety Checklist
d. Application Form✔️

Who is responsible for the inspection of all buildings, structures, facilities and premises, hazardous operations,
storage facilities and transportation vehicles of hazardous materials and determination of compliance of provision
of the fire code of the philippines.

a. Chief, Fire Safety Enforcement Section

b. Chief Operations
c. City/Municipal Fire Marshal✔
d. Fire Safety Enforcer

To gain interior access as much as possible in the building wherein the fire is still approachable or applicable for
offensive attack to be performed with the granted speed 
but with minimum damage? 
 
a.  Priciciple of forcible entry 
b.  To save lives and properties 
c.  Effective suppression and control operation ✔
d.  Prevention and control of spread of fire 
e.  For property preservation

The following are deemed means of egress except one  

A. Elevator ✔️
b. Stairs 
c. Hallway 
d. Ramp

The value of automatic sprinklers in providing safety to the occupants of a structure include :
  
A. Provides better chance of survival for occupants on upper floors
B. Discharges water directly on the fire
C. Products of combustion are limited
D. All of the above✔️

If backdraft conditions are apparent, attempt entry: 

 
A. immediately.
B. after ventilation has started. 
C. before beginning ventilation.
D. only after ventilation is complete✔️

What triage category?

Patients have life-threatening injuries that probably are survivable with immediate treatment. Examples: are tension
pneumothorax, respiratory distress, major internal hemorrhage, and airway injuries

A. Green
B. Yellow
C. Red✔️
D. BlackMass Casualty Incidents MCI

What triage category?

Patients require definitive treatment, but no immediate threat to life exists. Patients can wait for treatment without
jeopardy. 

Examples: include minor extremity fractures, laceration with hemorrhage controlled, and burns over less than 25%
of body surface area

A. Green
B. Yellow✔
C. Red
D. Black

What triage category?

Patients have minimal injuries, are ambulatory, and can self-treat or seek alternative medical attention
independently.
Examples: include minor lacerations, contusions, and abrasions.

A. Green✔
B. Yellow
C. Red
D. Black

What triage category?

Patients have life-threatening injuries that probably are survivable with immediate treatment. Examples: are tension
pneumothorax, respiratory distress, major internal hemorrhage, and airway injuries

A. Green
B. Yellow
C. Red✔️
D. Black

Expectant (0-Black)
What triage category?
Patients have lethal injuries and will die despite treatment. Examples: include devastating head injuries, major third-
degree burns over most of the body, and destruction of vital organs.

A. Green
B. Yellow
C. Red
D. Black✔️

What is triage?
"Triage" means to sort
Triage Categories
1. Red= urgent- Priority and Care must not be delayed " Life Threatening"

2. Yellow = Treatment can be delayed - injuries are less life threatening.

3. Green = Treatment can wait for hours without compromising patient safety " patient stable" can walk

4. Black = Dead.  Least Priority.

alarm initiating device designed to actuate when visible or invisible products of combustion ( other than fire gases)
are present in the room or space where unit is installed.

A. Smoke detector✔️
B. supervisory signal
C. trouble signal
D. protected premises system

Which of the following is not included on strategies for the safety under prevention 
of ignition? 
 
a.  Control/eliminate ignation sources 
 b.  Control/ eliminate materials that are easily ignited 
 c.  Use non-combustible materials. 
 d.  Use materials of low ignitability 
 e.  Structure fire protection✔️

*Discuss modes of combustion, the fire triangle, and the fire tetrahedron.

Modes of combustion are differentiated based on: 

 A. type of fuel.

 B. potential size of fire.
 C. where the reaction is occurring✔️
 D. whether the fuel can self-ignite

Which of the following are the three components of the fire triangle? 

 A. Oxygen, fuel, and heat✔️

 B. Fuel, heat, and energy
 C. Oxygen, fuel, and a self-sustained chemical reaction
 D. Oxygen, heat, and a self-sustained chemical reaction

Which of the following modes of combustion occurs when solid fuels undergo oxidation at the surface of the fuel? 

 A. Standard combustion

 B. Flaming combustion
 C. Linear combustion
 D. Nonflaming or smoldering combustion✔️

 Which of the following modes of combustion requires liquid or solid fuels to be converted to the gas phase or
vaporized?
 
 A. Standard combustion
 B. Flaming combustion✔️
 C. Linear combustion
 D. Nonflaming or smoldering combustion

Which of the following is NOT an element of the fire tetrahedron?

 
 A. Oxygen
 B. Fire inhibitor ✔️
 C. Fuel
 D. Self-sustained chemical reaction

Flaming combustion is accurately explained BEST by which of the following? 

 A. Fire triangle
 B. Fire tetrahedron✔️
 C. Autoignition
 D. Piloted ignition

The Chief of the Fire Bureau and Chief of the Jail Bureau shall serve a tour of duty not to extend ____?

A. 2yrs
B. 4yrs ✔️
C. 5 yrs
D. 10 yrs

*RA. 9263 sec 3

Bureau of Fire Protection and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Professionalization Act of 2004

*Provided, however, That in times of war or other national emergency declared by Congress, the President may
extend such tour of duty. 

Shall have the power to investigate all causes of fires

A. arson Department
B. Fire Bureau✔️
C. DILG
D. Fire Department

*The fire bureau shall have the power to investigate all causes of fires and if necessary, file the proper complaints
with the city or provincial prosecutor who has jurisdiction over the case 
(Sec 54, RA 6975)

RA 9514 is an act establishing a comprehensive fire code of the Philippines repealing Presidential Decree No. 1185 .
The said act is also known as______

a. Fire Code of the Philippines of 2008✔

b. Amended Fire Code of the Philippines of 2008
c. Comprehensive Fire Code of the Philippines of 2008
d. Repealed Fire Code of the Philippines of 2008

*PD 1185 repealed by RA 9514.Comprehensive Fire Code of the Philippines

How many percent of oxygen and nitrogen from the air we breath?

A. 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen

B. 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen✔️ 
C. 22% oxygen and 78% nitrogen
D. 23% oxygen and 77% nitrogen

If there is evidence of possible Arson ,the fire department should leave atleast one person on the premises until the
_________.

A. Investigator left
B. Fire chief arrives
C. Investigator arrives ✔️
D. Fire is suppresed

in case of corporation or partnership who shall suffer imprisonment in case there is willful failure to correct
deficiency or abate fire hazard. 

A. Members of the Family

B. Officers of the BFP
C. Members of the corporation or officers
D. Officers of the corporation or partnership✔️

When may a building be declared as public nuisance?

A. When it creates clear and present imminent safety to life and property 
B. When it creates clear and present imminent danger to life of animals. 
C. When it creates clear and present imminent danger to life and property.✔️
D. NOTA

What is the recourse of BFP in case of failure of violator to pay the fine imposed?

A. Closure request 
B. Stoppage of operation
C. Closure order
D. closure order or stoppage of operations✔️
E. All of the above

In the  course  of fire investigation fire prober found traces of simultaneous burning in strategic areas of the burned
building which lead them to conclude an arson case. In a fire incident where fire started simultaneously in more
than  one part of the  building or Establishment constitutes as? 

A. Destructive arson
B. Other cases of arson 
C. Primary facie evidence of arson✔️
D. Special aggravating circumstances in arson

*Arson and other crimes involving destruction

- ArsonIt is the intentional or malicious destruction of property by fire.

The Legal Aspect’s of Arson/Fire Investigation

1. It is the concern of the fire investigator to prove malicious intent of the offender. Intent must be proved, otherwise
no crime exist.

2. The law presumes that a fire is accidental, hence criminal designs must be shown.

3. Fire caused by accident or criminal design must be shown.

4. Fire caused by accident or negligence does not constitute arson.

*Basis of Criminal Liability in Arson:

1. Kind and character of the building burned;

2. Location of the building;
3. Extent of value of the damage;
4. Whether inhabited or not.

*Sec. 2. Destructive Arson. — The penalty of Reclusion temporal in its maximum period to Reclusion perpetua shall
be imposed if the property burned is any of the following :

1. Any ammunition factory and other establishment where explosives, inflammable or combustible materials are
stored.

2. Any archive, museum, whether public or private or any edifice devoted to culture, education or social services.

3. Any church or place or worship or other building where people usually assemble.

4. Any train, airplane or any aircraft, vessel or watercraft, or conveyance for transportation of persons or property.

5. Any building where evidence is kept for use in any legislative, judicial, administrative or other official proceedings.

6. Any hospital, hotel, dormitory, lodging house, housing tenement, shopping center, public or private market, theater
or movie house or any similar place or building.

7. Any building, whether used as dwelling or not, situated in a populated or congested area.

Sec. 3. Other Cases of Arson. — The penalty of Reclusion temporal to Reclusion perpetua shall be imposed if the
property burned is any of the following:

1. Any building used as offices of the government or any of its agencies;

2. Any uninhabited house or dwelling;
3. Any industrial establishment, shipyard, oil well or mine shaft, platform or tunnel;
4. Any plantation, farm, pastureland, growing crop, grain filed, orchard, bamboo grove or forest;
5. Any rice mill, cane mill or mill central; and
6. Any railway or bus station, airport, wharf or warehouse.

*Sec. 6. Prima Facie Evidence of Arson. — Any of the following circumstances shall constitute prima facie evidence
of arson:

1. If the fire started simultaneously in more than one part of the building or establishment.
2. If substantial amount of flammable substances or materials are stored within the building not necessary in the
business of the offender nor for household use.

3. Gasoline, kerosene, petroleum or other flammable or combustible substances or materials soaked therewith or
containers, thereof, or any mechanical, electrical, chemical, or electronic contrivance designed to start a fire, or
ashes or traces of any of the foregoing are found in the ruins or premises of the burned building or property.

4. If the building or property is insured for substantially more than its actual value at the time of the issuance of the
policy.

5. If during the lifetime of the corresponding fire insurance policy more than two fires have occurred in the same or
other premises owned or under the control of the offender and/or insured.

6. If shortly before the fire a substantial portion of the effects insured and stored in building or property had been
withdrawn from the premises except in the ordinary course of business.

7. If a demand for money or other valuable consideration was made before the fire in exchange for the desistance
of the offender or for the safety of other person or property of the victim.

*Sec. 4. Special Aggravating Circumstances in Arson. — The penalty in any case of arson shall be imposed in its
maximum period:

1. If committed with intent to gain;

2. If committed for the benefit of another;
3. If the offender is motivated by spite or hatred towards the owner or occupant of the property burned;
4. If committed by a syndicate(three or more persons).