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Fire · Topic 1 · Ch. 1, Ch. 2

The FDNY plan, owner obligations and legal requirements

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Why it matters

This is the framework for everything else: which buildings need an FDNY plan, what the plan must contain and who has the authority to put it into action. In our bank, most questions on this topic ask for thresholds (people, floors, feet) and for the FLS Director's authority.

This topic is worth about 8 of the 120 questions of the Fire exam (estimated from the booklet's pages).

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≈ 8 of 120 questions

Estimated from the FDNY booklet; the FDNY does not publish the exact distribution.

How it's estimated

This topic takes up 13 of the 206 pages of chapters 1-12 of the booklet (6.3%). 6.3% of the 120 questions of the Fire exam = 7.6 ≈ 8.

Official data (FDNY Notice of Exam F-89/T-89, p. 3): the General Topics and Fire course (Component 1: Part I, chapters 1-8, and Part II, chapters 9-12) lasts at least 20 hours; the Non-Fire course (Component 2: Part III, chapters 13-17; Part IV, chapters 18-19; Part V, chapters 20-22) at least 11 hours. Those are class hours, not exam questions, so they are not part of the estimate.

What to memorize

  • Kept at the Fire Command Center for the FDNY: the FDNY plan, the Building Information Card (BIC) and the floor plans (Ch. 1, p. 68; §1.1(D), p. 70).
  • The BIC is 11 x 17 inches, double-sided and laminated, with a color-coded plot plan and a building elevation (§1.1(A)(2), p. 69).
  • No one can subordinate the FLS Director's authority to implement the plan, and no owner notification procedure can slow it down (§1.3, p. 71).
  • Thresholds that require a plan: buildings over 6 stories or 75 feet (except Group R-2); covered malls over 50,000 sq ft; Group M with more than 25 employees (pp. 67-68).
  • Whenever the plan is implemented, drills included: an alert or alarm tone followed by an announcement, repeated or updated often (§1.6, p. 72).
  • Chapter 2 lists the laws behind these rules: Local Laws 5 (1973), 41 (1978), 16 (1984), 58 (1987) and 26 (2004), the 2014 Fire Code with 3 RCNY 113, and the ADA of 1990 (pp. 75-79).

Memory trick

BIC = "Big, Laminated, Color-coded": 11 x 17, laminated, color-coded plot plan. And the Fire Command Center trio is "Plan, BIC, Plans".

Ch. 1, §1.1, pp. 68-70

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