fire services installations

[...]... UK Class A: Fires involving ordinary combustible material Class B: Fires involving flammable liquids Class C: Class D: Class E: Fires involving gases or liquefied gases Fires involving combustible metals Electrical fires Each fire extinguisher (F.E imported from UK, USA, Mainland etc.) is marked with the Class(es) of fires the F.E can tackle Different fire extinguishers contain different fire fighting... COP-FSI, COP-I&T; and also the unstated requirements with which firemen operate the fire hydrant system The testing requirements of COP-FSI, COP-I&T cover a few limited cases how firemen use fire hydrant systems There are a lot other conditions not stated in the COPs under which firemen operate the fire hydrant system (Cheung, 1998a, 1998b) If the fire hydrant system is not designed to cope with these conditions... http://www.kidde.co.uk/ 14.2 Reference RULES OF THE FIRE OFFICES’ COMMITTEE AND FIRE OFFICES’ COMMITTEE OF IRELAND FOR AUTOMATIC FIRE ALARM INSTALLATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY, 12th EDITION, February 1985 The Loss Prevention Certificate Board List of Approved Fire and Security Products and Services, Annual Publication Loss Prevention Council, UK BS5839: Fire detection and alarm systems for buildings... see Section 14 Fire Detection System 13 Fire Control Centre COP-FSI defines Fire control centre” as “A compartment (situated at street level having direct access to open air and vehicular approach) containing annunciator boards, controls, terminals, etc of the Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems within that building / complex 14 Fire Detection Systems 14.0 General COP-FSI defines: Fire detection... being injured • For very tall buildings, fire hydrant systems have to be designed with the refuge-floor based fire evacuation and fire fighting approach (Cheung, 1997) For normal buildings, see http://arch.hku.hk/teaching/ on Building Services Projects for examples of Fire Hydrant and Hosereel Schematics 15.2 Reference Cheung, K.P., (1998a) An analysis of a fire hydrant / standpipe / wet riser system... “Any fire service equipment which is manufactured, used or designed to be used as an independent unit for the purpose of extinguishing, attacking, preventing or limiting a fire, e.g water type, foam, inert gas, any chemical extinguishers, fire blankets and sand buckets.” 22.1 Various fire extinguishers and their fire extinction principles There are two classifications adopted in Hong Kong for fire. .. extinguishers:By National Fire Protection Association, USA Class A: Fires involving ordinary combustible material Class B: Fire involving flammable liquids, gases Class C: Fires involving live electrical equipment where the electrical nonconductivity of the extinguishing media is of importance Class D: Fires involving combustible metals Class K: For commercial cooking areas (used after the fire protection system... 5588: Part 4: 1998 Fire precautions in the design, construction and use of buildings Part 4 Code of Practice for smoke control using pressure differentials.” 4 Klote J H Fothergill J W Design of Smoke Control Systems for Buildings ASHRAE USA 1983 5 Codes of Practice for Minimum Fire Service Installations and Equipment and Inspection and Testing of Installations and Equipment Fire Services Department... System The sprinkler systems are designed to deal mainly with solid-fuel fires, but can serve also to hold a flammable-liquid fire in check and to extinguish some oil fires (e.g transformer oil fires) by deluge sprinklers, by purely using water With suitable foam concentrate added to the water, its fire fighting capability on oil fires can be greatly enhanced Each system is designed for its particular... Council, UK (LPC, UK) approves the follow items for fire detection and alarm systems:- Certificated fire detection and alarm system firms (in UK) Fire detection and alarm systems Control and indicating equipment Detectors Manual call points Line units Sounders Fire resistant cables UL910 cables (UL is Underwriters’ Laboratories of USA) Central stations for fire alarm systems Signalling systems for central . generators 10. Emergency lighting 11. Exit signs 12. Fire alarm systems 13. Fire control centre 14. Fire detection systems 15. Fire hydrant / hose reel systems 16. Firemen’ s lifts 17. Fixed automatically. Emergency lighting vi) Exit signs vii) Fire alarm systems viii) Fire control centre ix) Fire detection systems x) Fire hydrant / hose reel systems xi) Fireman’ s lifts xii) Portable hand-operated. USA. 1983. 5. Codes of Practice for Minimum Fire Service Installations and Equipment and Inspection and Testing of Installations and Equipment. Fire Services Department. Hong Kong. 6. Mui D H