Building Occupants - All persons in the building, including employees, tenants, building staff, and visitors
Central Station Company - A facility that receives alarm signals from a protected premise and re-transmits o
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Building Occupants - All persons in the building, including employees, tenants, building staff, and visitors
Central Station Company - A facility that receives alarm signals from a protected premise and re-transmits or otherwise reports such alarm signals to the FDNY
Evacuation - the emptying of a building of all building occupants in response to a fire or an emergency
Emergency Preparedness Plan - The fire safety and evacuation plan/emergency action plan
Fire and Emergency Preparedness Staff - The individuals identified in the emergency preparedness plan as responsible for the implementation of such plan
Fire Drill - A training exercise by which building occupants are familiarized with and/ or practice the procedures for the safe, orderly and expeditious in-building relocation, partial evacuation or evacuation, as applicable to the occupancy or building type, in accordance with the fire safety and evacuation plan.
Fire Protective System - Approved devices, equipment and systems or combinations of systems used to deter a fire, activate an alarm, extinguish or control a fire. Includes fire extinguishers, sprinkler systems and standpipe systems
In-Building Relocation - The controlled movement of building occupants from an endangered area of a building to an in-building relocation area with-in the same building in response to a fire or non-fire emergency
In- Building Relocation Area (IBRA) - A designated area in a building to which building occupants may be relocated to in accordance with the emergency preparedness plan for the premises
Manual Fire Alarm Box - A manually operated device used to initiate an alarm signal
Mixed Occupancy Building - Buildings that have multiple occupancies. These are referred to as "mixed occupancies" and the different parts will be required to meet the fire code for each specific area. An example of this is a shopping mall with underground parking. The shopping area itself is Group M (mercantile), while the parking area would qualify as Group S (storage)
Non-Fire Emergency - A biological chemical or nuclear ingredient or release (explosion, natural disaster or other emergency affecting premises)
Non-Fire Emergency Drill - Training exercise practice procedures for evacuation
Off-line - Those periods of time when a Central Station Company will, at the request of a building owner, not transmit fire alarm signals received from a building to the Fire Department. Fire alarm systems can be taken "off-line" only for Fire Department approved purposes associated with the prevention of unnecessary and unwarranted alarms.
One-Way Voice Communication - Make announcements from lobby to building occupants in their apartments, offices, classrooms, etc.
Owner - the fee owner or lessee of the building
Partial Evacuation - the emptying of a building of some but not all building occupants in response to a fire or an emergency.
Public Address System - an electronic sound amplification and distribution system with a microphone, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to allow a person to address a large public. Public Address systems enable voice communications from a central location, usually in the building lobby.
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