Steve, That's a great program and would be really interesting to see it up here, but I have doubts on the cooperation end.
What is the correct (or reasonable) proportion of fire stations/personnel/apparatus to population? I would assume that paid vs volunteer would make a difference. My town (Stonington, CT) has a population of 18,000 and is 42.7 square miles. Two medium sized manufacturing facilities and two tourist attractions; the rest residential. We have 6 separate (volunteer) fire stations and at least 22 pieces of apparatus. Is that reasonable? How does it compare? At 07:31 PM 4/11/2009, you wrote: >Our Northeast Florida Chapter of SFPE had a joint training day with our >local fire department this past Thursday. It's something we started doing >to work with our local firefighters to see how they actually use building FP >systems, to learn what design mistakes they often see, and generally get the >design community together with the end users. We are a little bit unusual >in that Jacksonville is really spread out (biggest city in the country >land-wise) and as a result, we have a huge fire department which is >disproportionate to our population with 55 fire stations, 1,200 >firefighters, etc. > > > >Our local fire chief discussed sprinkler saves and I thought I would pass >along the information. He said that they arrive to at least one sprinkler >save per month - usually in apartments. They just shut off the control >valve, replace the sprinkler and squeegee up the water. Almost all of them >are extinguished with one sprinkler. They are really high on sprinklers and >were strong advocates of having more systems. > > > >Just wanted to pass along some good news, > > > > > >Steve Kowkabany, P.E. > >Fire Protection Engineer > >Neptune Fire Protection Engineering LLC > >616 Davis Street > >Neptune Beach, FL 32266 > >904-652-4200 Phone > >904-212-0868 Fax > > > >_______________________________________________ >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) Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut www.fpdc.com 860.535.2080 _______________________________________________ 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)
