RULE 8- FIRE SAFETY ENFORCERS

True or False.
1. Non-Uniformed Personnel appointed as Engineers can be a Fire Safety Inspector (FSI) as
long as he/she has already been in the BFP service for at least 2 years. T
2. Architects can be a FSI as long as lhe/she is in the BFP service for at least 3 years. T
3. Only licensed Architect or Engineer can be a plan evaluator. F
4. Only uniformed personnel can be designated as C, FSES/U. F
5. An Engineer III BFP personnel cannot be designated as C, FSES/U. T
6. One of the duties of a FSI is to conduct fire safety lectures. T
7. Plan evaluators (PE) are not allowed to inspect buildings under construction. F
8. FSI and PE are allowed to testify in any judicial and quasi-judicial bodies on matters
relating to RA 9514. F
9. BFP personnel with a rank of SFO2 cannot be a C, FSES of Province or District. F
10. FSI must have undergone and completed prescribed training on fire safety enforcement
and other relevant fire safety training. T

RULE 9- ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF FIRE SAFETY MEASURES

1. It is mandatorily conducted as a prerequisite to grants of permits and or license s by local

governments or other government agencies -
a. Fire Safety Inspection Certificate
b. Fire Safety Practices
c. Fire Safety Inspection
d. Fire Safety Construction

2. A document shall be issued by the C/MFM before securing Certificate of Occupancy,

Business Permits or Permit to Operate is -
a. Fire Safety Inspection Certificate
b. Fire Safety Practices
c. Fire Safety Inspection
d. Fire Safety Construction

3. It is a form used to facilitate the checking building plan –

a. Fire Safety Inspection Certificate
b. Fire Safety Practices
c. Fire Safety Checklist
d. Fire Safety Construction
4. A written report composed of plans, specifications and design analysis per building
prepared by Engineer/Architect-of-Record and Fire Safety Practitioner and required before
the issuance of FSEC by the C/MFM -
a. Fire Safety Inspection Certificate
b. Fire Safety Compliance Report
c. Fire Safety Checklist
d. Fire Safety Construction

5. A compilation report of all approved submittals, tests and acceptance forms of all fire
protection and life safety features, which shall form part of the “as-built” documents turned
over by the contractor to the building owner. It is also needed before the issuance of FSIC for
Certificate of Occupancy -
a. Fire Safety Inspection Certificate
b. Fire Safety Compliance Report
c. Fire Safety Checklist
d. Fire Safety Compliance and Commissioning Report

6. A written report prepared by the building owner, his/her fire safety practitioner or authorized
representative. A kind of report for preventive maintenance of fire safety features and audit as
to its efficiency and effectiveness -
a. Fire Safety Inspection Certificate
b. Fire Safety Compliance Report
c. Fire Safety Compliance and Commissioning Report
d. Fire Safety Maintenance Report

7. A fire safety evaluation and inspection shall be conducted BFP through building plan
review, during and after construction, and business routine inspection shall be based or in
accordance with the - verified protest shall be considered and executed that affiant has a
following, except –
a. BFP orders and directives
b. Civil Service Law
c. Fire Code of the Philippines
d. Citizen’s Charter

8. The following fire safety features are required in the submission of Fire Safety Compliance
Report (FSCR), except -
a. means of egress and ingress
b. wet standpipe system
c. automatic fire suppression system
d. automatic fire detection and alarm system

9. A fire insurance data are required in all types of properties and or businesses to submit
within 10 days after receipt of the document (policy) from any insurance company, except.
a. mercantile
 b. business
c. detached single of two-family dwellings
d. places of assembly and educational

10. Any qualified person, recognized by the BFP, engaged in, but not limited to, the design,
construction, installation, repair and maintenance, assessment, and rehabilitation of fire safety
construction, suppression and control systems, protective and warning systems and life safety
related services, or employed as a safety officer of public or private establishment or
companies, is -
a. fire safety inspector
b. fire volunteer organization
c. building administrator
d. fire safety practitioner

RULE 10- FIRE SAFETY MEASURES

1. The hazard of contents of any building or structure which are liable to burn with
moderate rapidity or to give off a considerable volume of smoke but from which neither
poisonous fumes nor explosions are to be expected in the event of fire.
A. Low hazard
B. High hazard
C. Fire trap
D. Fire hazard
E. Moderate hazard

2. Those which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity or from which poisonous gases or
explosions are to be expected in the event of fire.
A. Finishes
B. Electrical Arc
C. Moderate hazard
D. High Hazard
E. Low hazard

3. Refers to two (2) or more classes of occupancies occurring/located/situated/existing in

the same building and/or structures so intermingled that separate safeguards are
impracticable.
A. Special Structures
B. Industrial Occupancies
C. Mixed Occupancies
D. Occupants
E. Occupant Load

4. Those buildings used for lodging and boarding of four (4) or more residents, not related
by blood or marriage to the owners or operators, for the purpose of providing personal
care services.
A. Health Care
 B. Residential Board and care
C. Detention and Correctional
D. Residential
E. Day Care

5. Any act of manufacturing, fabrication, conversion, or other similar operations that use
or produce materials which are likely to cause fires or explosions.
A. Abatement
B. Hazardous Operation/Process
C. Industrial baking and Drying
D. Fire Safety Construction
E. Overloading

6. How many floors does a building qualify for the provision of constructing a Fire
Command Center?
A. For building ten (10) or more floors
B. For building eight (8) or more floors
C. For building fifteen (15) or more floors
D. For building six (6) or more floors
E. For building twelve (12) or more floors

7. A system of vertical pipes in a building to which fire hoses can be attached on each
floor, including a system by which water is made available to water outlets as needed.
A. Sprinkler System
B. Standpipe System
C. Approved, Supervised Sprinkler System
D. Dry Standpipe
E. Fire Detection and Alarm System

8. Building, structure or facility in which the distance between the floor of the topmost
storey and the ground level is fifteen meters (15 m) or more. Building height shall be
measured from the lowest level of fire department vehicle access to the floor of the
highest occupiable storey
A. Fire Command Center
B. High Rise Building
C. Open Plan Buildings
D. Flexible Plan Buildings
E. Heliport

9. Any person actually occupying and using a building or portions thereof by virtue of a
lease contract with the owner or administrator or by permission or sufferance of the
latter.
A. Occupant Load
B. Occupant
C. Occupancy
 D. Lodging or Rooming houses
E. Occupiable Storey

10. The maximum number of persons that may be allowed to occupy a particular building,
structure, or facility, or portions hereof
A. Occupant Load
B. Occupant
C. Occupancy
D. Lodging or Rooming Houses
E. Occupiable Storey
11. What is passive fire protection?
a. Measure to prevent the spread of fire through openings of any building structure.
b. Aimed to give early warning to occupant.
c. Suppressing fire through sprinkler system.
d. kitchen hood system.
12. What is active fire protection?
a. Measure to prevent the spread of fire through openings of any building structure.
b. Aimed to give early warning to occupant.
c. Suppressing fire through sprinkler system.
d. kitchen hood system.
13. Building design to limit the fire and smoke spread so that people have longer time to
escape.
a. Active fire protection
b. Fire door
c. Compartmentation
d. Fire alarm system
14. Removal of smoke inside a windowless building interconnected with fdas.
a. Smoke grill system
b. Automatic fire suppression system
c. Fire detection and alarm system
d. Smoke management
15. ___________ fire system is designed to detect and suppress fire through a process of
detection, activation and suppression.
a. Fire detection and Alarm system
b. Automatic fire suppression system
c. Smoke management
d. Active fire protection
16. Designed to detect heat, smoke, fire gases or flame.
a. Smoke control system
 b. HEAT DETECTOR
c. FDAS
d. SMOKE DETECTOR
17. What detector should be installed in a smoke producing area.
a. Smoke detector
b. Heat detector
c. Gaseous detector
d. Fire alarm
18. What detector should be installed in a heat producing area.
a. Smoke detector
b. Heat detector
c. Gaseous detector
d. Fire alarm
19. What kind of fire extinguisher band for it’s ozone depleting substance components.
a. MAP
B. CO2
C. AFFF
D. HCFC
20. Under utilities what do you mean by HVAC
a. high volume actuator components
b. hard ventosa actual compress
c. heat venting air conditioning
d. high venting air conduct

RULE 11 – PROHIBITED ACTS &

RULE 12- FIRE CODE TAXES, FEES/CHARGES AND FINES

1. What is the main prohibited act found in the Fire Code?

a. Selling of fire extinguisher
b. Obstruction of any access ways
c. Removing fire safety devices
d. Non-payment of administrative fines

2. What is the basis to determine if there is an overcrowding or admission of person?

a. Occupant Load
b. Floor area
c. Authorized capacity
d. Actual occupants

3. What is the basis of Fire Code Construction Tax?

a. 0.10% market value of the building to be erected
b. 0.10% assess value of the building to be erected
c. 0.10% verified estimated value of the building to be erected
d. 0.10% contract price of the construction of the building to be erected

4. What is the basis for the Fire Safety Inspection Fee?

a. 15% of all fees charged by the LGU
b. 15% of all fees and taxes charged by the LGU
c. 15% of all taxes charged by the LGU
d. 15% of business permit fees charged by the LGU

5. Public Schools, LGU and other government agencies are exempted from paying what fee?
a. Fire Safety Inspection Fees
b. Building permit fee
c. Fire Drill fee
d. Fire safety seminar fee

6. Administrative fines are considered as fire code revenues.

a. True
b. False
c. It depends

7. Aside from R.A. No. 9514, what law that also prescribed the delegation of assessment of
the fire code fees to the LGU?
a. R.A. No. 11592 or the LPG Industry Regulation Act
b. R.A. No. 7160 or the Local Government Code
c. R.A. No. 6975 or the DILG Act of 1990
d. R.A. No. 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service
Delivery Act of 2018

8. What are the stand-alone clearances under the Fire Code?

a. Storage Clearance
b. Conveyance Clearance
c. Installation Clearance
d. None the above

9. When do we need to assess the 2% Fire Code Sale Tax?

a. During the application of FSEC
b. During the application of FSIC for Occupancy
c. During the installation of Fire Protection Devices
d. During the commissioning of Fire Protection Devices

10. What is the ceiling of the administrative fines?

a. 5,000
b. 50,000
c. 500,000
d. No limit.
 RULE 13 ADMINISTRATIVE COURSES OF ACTION
AND
RULE 14 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

1. What are the notices which has the corresponding administrative fines as among the
following, except:
a. Closure
b. Abatement
c. Notice to Correct Violation/s
d. Notice to Comply

2. Is any act that would remove or neutralize a fire hazard, like there is a failure and or
inaction of the fire code violator –
a. Approved
b. Building
c. Abatement
d. Bale

3. A closure of the building shall be resorted to by the BFP, when the deficiency constitutes a
clear an imminent danger to life and property, and –
a. When the offender fails to comply with the abatement order
b. When the owner do not follows the required fire safety requirements
c. When the owner failed to recognized the Notice to Correct Violation/s
d. When there is a Notice to Comply issued

4. Abatement, administrative fines, closure of the building, and assessment and declaration
for public nuisance shall be imposed by the following -
a. Chief, BFP
b. BFP Regional Director
c. Provincial/District Fire Marshal
d. City/Municipal Fire Marshal

5. A period of correcting violations shall be done after the following number of days or is
within, except
a. Immediately or within 24 hours
b. Within 30 days
c. Within 10 days
d. Within 15 days
6. Is any request for reconsideration, request for extension of time to comply, and such other
matters pertaining to the issued notice or order shall be treated as _________ upon payment
of the corresponding fee amounting to Php 500.00 is –
a. Appeal
b. Protest
c. Motion for Reconsideration
d. Undertakings

7. A verified protest shall be considered and executed that affiant has a following, except –
a. personal knowledge
b. read and understood its contents
c. accompanied with certificate of non-forum shopping
d. left it unsigned

8. The protest shall resolved within a period of _____ from receipt of the complete records of
the case -
a. five (5) days
b. ten (10) days
c. fifteen (15) days
d. thirty (30) days

9. A protest shall be filed before the office of the _______________as the case may be,
within five (5) days from receipt of the of a notice or order.
a. Chief, BFP
b. BFP Regional Director
c. Provincial/District Fire Marshal
d. City/Municipal Fire Marshal

10. A penalties shall be imposed upon or against private person and against public officer,
shall be administrative and ___________-
a. fines
b. punitive or imprisonment
c. suspension
d. none of the above

PRE & POST TEST

Fire Safety Enhancement Training
CY 2024

1. A fees to be charged for the issuance of certificates, permits and license as provided for in
the -
a. Section 7 of RA 9514
b. Rule 9 of RA 9514
c. Rule 10 of RA 9514
 d. Rule 12 of RA 9514

2. A charges for regulation, inspection and other Fire Service activities in the enforcement of
RA 9514 and it Revised Implementing Rules & Regulations is –
a. Fire Code Fees
b. Fire Code Fines
c. Fire Code Fee Collection/Revenues
d. Fire Code Taxes

3. A collective income derived from the collection of Fire Code taxes, fees/charges and fines
is –
a. Fire Code Fee Collection/Revenues
b. Fire Code Fines
c. Sources of Income
d. Fire Code Taxes

4. Fire Code Taxes is derived from the following, except

a. FSIF
b. FCCT
c. FCST
d. FCRT

5. A fees to be charged for the conduct of fire safety inspection equivalent to 15% of all fees
charged by the LGU or PEZA, but in no case shall be lower than PhP500.00 is known to us
as –
a. Fire Safety Inspection Certificate
b. Fire Safety Evaluation Certificate
c. Business Permit for New and Renewal
d. None of the above

6. An accountable officer responsible for the collection, deposit and remittance of fire code
revenues from all fire code taxes, fees/charges and fines with AGDB or AGSB is –
a. Petty Cash Fund Custodian
b. Collecting Agent
c. Fire Code Assessor
d. Collecting Officer

7. An organic member of the BFP who is tasked to attend the immediate needs and concerns
of the customer, applicant or any taxpayer transacting business with a unit/station/office is-
a. Community Relation Unit
b. Duty Guard
c. Customer Relations Officer
d. City/Municipal Fire Marshal
8. A fee derived from a storage of flammable and combustible materials, such as copra, LPG,
gasoline, etc. is -
a. Fire Code Construction Tax
b. Storage Clearance Fee
c. Hotworks Fee
d. Conveyance Clearance Fee

9. A fire code construction tax shall be charged of one-tenth per centum of the building to be
erected by submission or presenting from the clients of –
a. Estimated cost of the building
b. Worth and value of the building
c. Bill of Materials
d. Verified estimated value and must be notarized the cost estimates or bill
of materials.

10. Other fees of Fire Code Revenue are derived from the following, except
a. filing fee for FSEC
b. administrative fines and penalties
c. fire drill and fireworks display
d. protest and appeal fee