Fire codes include regulations designed to prevent fires, eliminate hazards, protect lives, and what other objective?

• A. Increase Building Density
• B. Extend Evacuation Times
• C. Limit Fire Loss
• D. Widen Fire Service Area

Answer: (C)

Fire codes aim to prevent fires, remove hazards, and protect lives, and they also target reducing the consequences when a fire occurs. Limiting fire loss means minimizing property damage, economic disruption, and the overall impact on a community by ensuring effective fire protection and rapid recovery. The other options don’t fit with the goal of reducing the harm from fires: increasing building density tends to raise risk, extending evacuation times would worsen safety, and widening the fire service area is not a typical objective of fire codes.