Are there ever times when there are people sitting in the grandstands above the trailer full of "explosives"? I'd want a little more than a dry system outdoors (not timely on windy days) between my seat and explosives, especially if some cig butts are dropping in the ordinary combustibles area around the trailer (dixie cups from last week, napkins, usual stuff)
Other than having a place of assembly directly above explosive storage, no I don't see anything wrong. Seriously, the above is a little scary. I don't know why a flexhead wouldn't feed the sprinkler without bad things happening. I can tell you that a 5,000 SF retail side and a 5,000 SF storage side of retail fireworks is nothing more than OH2- until the fireworks catch fire, and ESFR's wouldn't work, you'd have wished you had a suprotex or primac system with 50 millisecond suppression. The sprinklers in the retail/storage I described had a lot more fire load, but the sprinklers are only intended to stop a fire before it sets the fireworks on fire. Not economically feasible to use infrared detection when your competitors are selling out of tents. glc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of douglas hicks Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 6:04 PM To: sprinkler board Subject: Explosives I have a customer who stores a quantity of less than 2 # of Class 1.4G explosives. These explosives are comparable to fireworks. The 1.4G is stored in a metal cabinet, not rated. The storage unit is 8 foot wide x 8 foot high x 12 foot long. The construction is wood frame, plywood floor, wood panel interior, and metal outside. If this sounds like a job trailer, your are right. The trailer is parked under a grandstand. the steel/wood grandstand is protected with a dry system, under the grandstands. Other contents are ordinary combustibles, wood, paper, cardboard. Upon occasion, the trailer is moved to other locations for shows. Then the trailer is parked under the grandstand. unless the trailer is put in the exact same spot, connection to the sprinkler system will be difficult. Can the flex head work for this application? As the 1.4G is in a cabinet, I would feel better with a sprinkler head in the cabinet, with a head or heads protecting the trailer. Any suggestions? Douglas Hicks General Fire Equipment Co of Eastern Oregon, Inc _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
