Good points... i think most FF engineers in a city department will make the hookup... even if their wagon is only carrying 1 or 2, it is what they are supposed to do.
but back to the reason for the partial system... [ and I hate partial systems and have fought them on the occasions I have seen the fire protection engineer specify them. one occassion was in a 3-story nursing home, the other *just* a high-rise apartment building] but with freezers, it is usually not the frozen chicken lard or chilled butter or the combustible antifreeze in the sprinkler pipe but the insulation panels that are the fuse to those bigger fires. The AHJ is right to be concerned about cooler/freezer insulation panels. Panels that pass even medium scale tests, still burn fiercely in reality. Is the appropriate solution to suggest a fully sprinklered building, which is great for A.S. pockets, but is probably not going to be used, or needed for life safety in an otherwise complying business occupancy. [Yes, tell Caputo that I am rolling dice regarding when the fire won't happen]. Or is the appropriate solution to consider another system and put in a heat detector or line detector over the cooler and send that fairly reliable signal to the FACP? scot deal excelsior fire _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.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)
