I have always looked at hose stations with disfavor, but. I responded to an apartment fire in San Francisco. Two little old ladies had dragged a hose up a flight of stairs and extinguished a fire. Didn't change my mind, as this was an event rather than a statistic. Ed Vining 4819 John Muir Rd Martinez CA 94553 925-228-8792 Cell 925-787-0465
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Cahill, Christopher <[email protected]>wrote: > May not help if '02 is the adopted code. AHJ technically doesn't have the > authority just to use another code. And it would be hard to use alternate > methods if the base is hose stations. How do you take them out but provide > equivalent protection. Don't get me wrong hose stations IMHO have very > limited uses. If you are really paranoid even if granted you are liable > should anything go wrong. Yes I find it hard to believe there is any > scenario where hose stations or not make the difference but that's why I'm > not an insurance lawyer. > > Chris Cahill, PE* > Senior Fire Protection Engineer, Aviation & Facilities Group > Burns & McDonnell > 8201 Norman Center Drive > Bloomington, MN 55437 > Phone: 952.656.3652 > Fax: 952.229.2923 > [email protected] > www.burnsmcd.com > > Proud to be one of FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For > *Registered in: MN > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 1:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: 2007 12.2.1 Small hose stations > > We have an AHJ that is still using 2002 #13 and wants to make a building > owner install about 70 1.5" hose racks "because it is required by code". > Rather than just tell them that the 07 and 10 #13 makes them optional I > would like to give them a copy of the substantiation from the ROP and/or > ROC. Does anyone know how I can get a copy of those documents. > > Thanks in advance, > > > Ron Fletcher > Aero Automatic > Phoenix, AZ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20120608/c260fbe4/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
