Funny (funny ironic) story: My wife calls me one day to tune into a radio talk show because they're talking about sprinklers. This was the first time when that prohibition on barbecues was going to be adopted by Washington. The tone was all about the fire nazis and how fire marshal would break down your door to confiscate your cooker. At the same time a breaking story kept breaking in about a large apartment building on fire. The announcer kept talking about how two whole side were on fire, implying an exterior blaze. It was out of control. No one died but several people were put out of their homes. Turned out to have been started by an unattended barbecue.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Thom McMahon <[email protected]> wrote: > IFC 308.3.1 Prohibits charcoal or open flame on decks except single family > or duplex, or unless protected with sprinklers. > Then 903.3.1.2.1 tells you to protect all decks in 13R and tells you how to > protect. > > I think the feeling was that there was no way to enforce the prohibition of > open flame cooking devices on decks, so it was easier to just require them > all to be protected. > > Additional note: If you look in 13R at the fire loss statistics, decks are > the first area in the sub 100 deaths per year, but higher than many other > occupancies we protect with 13R. > > Thom McMahon, SET > Firetech, Inc. > 2560 Copper Ridge Dr > P.O. Box 882136 > Steamboat Springs, CO 80488 > Tel: 970-879-7952 > Fax: 970-879-7926 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > > To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > -- Ron Greenman at home.... _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
