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FIRE INSPECTOR

Specialty Definition: FIRE INSPECTOR

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Occupations

Inspects buildings and equipment to detect fire hazards and enforce local ordinances and state laws: Observes tests of equipment, such as gasoline storage tanks and air compressors, and inspects storage conditions to ensure conformance to fire and safety codes. Issues permits to attest to safe operating conditions. Examines interiors and exteriors of buildings to detect hazardous conditions or violations of fire ordinances and laws. Prepares report of violations or unsafe conditions. Discusses condition with owner or manager and recommends safe methods of storing flammables or other hazardous materials. Informs owner or manager of conditions requiring correction, such as faulty wiring. Issues summons for fire hazards not corrected on subsequent inspection and enforces code when owner refuses to cooperate. Keeps file of inspection records and prepares report of activities. May perform duties of FIRE FIGHTER (any industry) or FIRE CAPTAIN (government ser.). May collect fees for permits and licenses. (references)
 Inspects premises of industrial plant to detect and eliminate fire hazards: Inspects fire-extinguishing and fire-protection equipment to ensure equipment is operable and prepares reports listing repairs and replacements needed. Patrols plant areas and notes and investigates unsafe conditions and practices which might cause or increase fire hazards. Reports findings to FIRE MARSHAL (any industry) with recommendations for eliminating or counteracting hazards. Renders first aid in emergencies. Patrols plant areas in which raw and combustible materials are stored, takes temperature and pressure readings from instruments, and reports undesirable conditions or takes steps to correct such conditions. May instruct employees in fire safety practices. May perform tests on fire-prevention equipment in plants where explosive or flammable materials are processed. May participate in fighting fires [FIRE FIGHTER (any industry)]. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: FIRE INSPECTOR

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Insulation, Fire extinction

Fire code, fire regulations, fire; fire inspector; code violation, citation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FIRE INSPECTOR

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fire inspector

23

fire inspector job

9

certification fire inspector

4

1 as certification fire inspector state tennessee

3

1 fire inspector

3

association fire inspector

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FIRE INSPECTOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: frontispiece.

-2 letters: fictioneers, perfections, personifier, prenotifies, proficients.

-3 letters: certifiers, criterions, escritoire, ferocities, fictioneer, intercrops, interposer, isentropic, perfection, pontifices, precentors, printeries, proficient, profiteers, receptions, recipients, rectifiers, refections, reinforces, renotifies.

-4 letters: certifier, certifies, confreres, copresent, criterion, enforcers, entropies, erections, ferritins, firestone, frenetics, frictions, frontiers, inceptors, infecters, infectors, inferiors, inspector, intercrop, interiors, interpose, introfies, neoterics, notifiers, orneriest.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-i-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-t"
 

+4 letters: precertifications.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FIRE INSPECTOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 49 52 45      49 4E 53 50 45 43 54 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01010010 01000101 00100000 01001001 01001110 01010011 01010000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#32 &#73 &#78 &#83 &#80 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0052 0045      0049 004E 0053 0050 0045 0043 0054 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

404352392434853503937544952

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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