I've been advocating that 13R be rolled into 13D as a special residential section for years (to an empty room of course) and I'll do the same for 13D as soon as the concept of sprinklers in SFDs becomes a more or less accepted idea in the housing industry.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:46 AM, å... .... <[email protected]> wrote: > *it is fun to play games, no denying, *with the spaghetti code that keeps > consultants employed (and my head spinning). But if the end game is doing > society a favor (which is our forum's cause celébre with residential > sprinklers) , and not just our pocketbooks, then sprinkler the whole > building and lets go home and bar-b-que. > > Getting some water, any water on the fire (regardless of standpipes) before > the ticks roll up can help. (pejorative term self-inflicted). As alluded > to in an earlier portion of this post, if this is a residence with > non-ambulatory people (which can always become the case as an R-occupancy > ages in place), we should seriously consider sprinklering the car park > area . > While not a common occurrence, there is an instance where a car fire under > a european (i believe english) apartment killed older residents as the > smoke entered the unit's open windows via spill plume. Saving one old > person's life may not be a great risk assessment (in terms of the value the > automobile industry assesses to an-old-person's life), but one more > instance of not having to dedicate as many mobile fire resources over the > duration of the building's life, is worth heavy consideration in defense of > the cost for yet another car park sprinkler system. > > scot deal > excelsior fire > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20120921/710e83ab/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Technology Bates Technical College 1101 So. Yakima Ave. Tacoma, WA 98405 [email protected] http://www.bates.ctc.edu/fireprotection/ 253.680.7346 253.576.9700 (cell) Member: ASEE, SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA, AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC, WFSC They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20120921/321c0bb6/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
