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March 2001Questions: |
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After taking the quiz, you can post your answers or comments on Fire Talk. 1. First Alert's combination Smoke / CO alarm has two distinctly different sounding alarms. If the alarm sounds a single on-off tone, each 1 1/2 seconds long accompanied by a flashing red dot pattern, which alarm is sounding.? A. Smoke Answer: B - Carbon Monoxide. The smoke alarm consists of three loud, consecutive beeps, then a pause. It is accompanied by the flashing red flame-shaped light. 2. How heavy are electric utility manhole covers? A: They can be as heavy as 300 pounds 3. Why are the elderly and the very young more aversely effected by exposure to Carbon Monoxide than others might be? A: The elderly often have medical conditions that result in reduced oxygen intake. Any additional reduction in oxygen availability will greatly effect them. Both the elderly and the very young spend more time indoors than the rest of the population and as a result are exposed to CO in the home for longer periods of time than is the rest of the population. 4. Fire Findings Journal conducted burn tests on corn oil. They left a pan containing corn oil over an open flame. After ten minutes, the oil started to smoke, after ____ minutes, the oil ignited and the flames reached a height of____ feet. A: twenty-two minutes, eight feet 5. The BLEVE of a twenty-two pound propane cylinder in a burning van propelled the sections of the roof as far as ______feet while blowing the rear doors off their top hinges. A: seventy-five
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