Los Angeles City College Fire Safety Questions Quiz

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1. If your house began to fill up with thick, black smoke, what would you do? (answer fully) 2. What would you do if you woke up at night, smelled, smoke, and found that your bedroom door was shut, but hot when you touched it? 3. Will the clothing you have on now burn? 4. What would you do right now if your clothing caught on fire? 5. If you were trapped in a bedroom on the fifth floor with flames outside in the hall and smoke pouring in under the door (with no telephone and no fire escape), what would you do? 6. (a) When you go to a strange place (movie house, friend’s house for the night, hotel, restaurant, etc.), do you check to see where the exits or fireescapes are? (b) If the answer to 6(a) was “Yes,” do YOU depend on being able to see the exit to find it, or do you figure out how to find it in the dark or in thick smoke? 7. Do you have a family escape plan, including ways of getting out of your house if the stairs or doors are blocked by fire, and a meeting place outside the house? 8. What should you do (or should your wife or mother do) if the frying pan catches on fire? 9. Carbon monoxide is produced by almost all fires. What effect does it have on you before it makes you sleepy and kills you? 10. Assume you plan to hang by your hands from a window ledge and then drop to the earth below. Estimate in feet the distance you could drop and still have a 50:50 chance of surviving without serious injury. 11. (a) What is the reason for having fuses in an electric circuit? (b) What strength fuse should be used in an ordinary lighting circuit? 12. What number should you dial to report a fire by telephone, and how should you report it? 13. When is an electric cord dangerous? (give at least two examples) 14. When is a double plug dangerous? 15. What should you do if you discover a large fire in your basement? 16. If you are trying to light a gas oven or burner and the first match goes out too soon, what should you do? 17. What is meant by “spontaneous combustion” or “spontaneous ignition”? 18. How should you store oily or greasy rags? 19. Why should gasoline be stored only in metal cans with self-closing caps? 20. Should you put out an electric fire with water?
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Fire Safety Questionnaire
1. If your house began to fill up with thick, black smoke, what would you do? (answer
fully)
Run away. I could find ways to run away since the black smoke indicates more
danger because it contains particulates which are toxic and still the room temperature
would be very high.
2. What would you do if you woke up at night, smelled, smoke, and found that your
bedroom door was shut, but hot when you touched it?
On discovering or detecting fire, I could raise a fire alarm by shouting “Fire” so
that my neighbors can here and respond to help. Secondly, I could use the exit
door of the house as I close the doors to confine fire extinguisher
3. Will the clothing you have on now burn?
Yes, if I delay until fire flames engulf the whole house or move close to the
flames, my clothing can catch fire.
4. What would you do right now if your clothing caught on fire?
If my clothes catch fire, I w...


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