Which of the following is NOT a required purpose of the fire alarm code as defined?

• A. Life safety
• B. Means of monitoring
• C. Property protection
• D. Public safety notification

Answer: (B)

The fire alarm code is written to ensure occupants can escape safely (life safety), property is protected from damage, and authorities are promptly alerted (public safety notification). These are the defined aims the code is built around. Means of monitoring is a tool used to achieve those aims—think of it as how the system’s status is watched and how signals are received by a monitoring service or authority. But it isn’t listed as one of the code’s primary purposes. In other words, monitoring supports the three main objectives, but it is not itself a stated purpose of the fire alarm code. The other three items—life safety, property protection, and public safety notification—directly reflect what the code seeks to accomplish.