Fire Safety Awareness Practice Questions — All Questions

The three elements a fire needs (the fire triangle) are:

• a.Smoke, heat, and water
• b.Heat, fuel, and oxygen✓
• c.Fuel, water, and light
• d.Water, air, and light

Fire needs heat, fuel, and oxygen; remove one to extinguish it.

Removing any one side of the fire triangle will:

• a.Have no effect
• b.Make it bigger
• c.Extinguish the fire✓
• d.Create smoke only

Removing heat, fuel, or oxygen puts the fire out.

Which commonly spreads fire quickly through a building?

• a.Alarms
• b.Smoke and open doors/voids✓
• c.Closed fire doors
• d.Wet floors

Smoke and open routes let fire and toxic gases spread; fire doors slow them.

Most fire deaths are caused by:

• a.Falling
• b.Heat only
• c.The flames only
• d.Smoke and toxic gases✓

Smoke inhalation and toxic gases cause most fire fatalities.