Combustible or non combustible? Todd G Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT www.fpdc.com
On Sep 10, 2013, at 10:18 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Pleasent Good Morning to All: > > So, we have had the quarterly sprinkler inspection contract at a bank > location (northern New Mexico) for the better part of three years. Bank built > in > 2002. Our inspector is retired local/city Fire Marshal and former State Fire > Marshal - he has all of the training and sprinkler ITM certificates that > one would like to see in a sprinkler system inspector. > > The Fire Extinguisher tech (colleague of ours) was performing annual > extinguisher inspection/service (yesterday 9/9/13) and noticed there were no > sprinklers in the drive-thru tellers enclosure - oh, and no sprinklers under > the > drive-thru canopy. He informs the bank manager of this 'condition'. So what > does the manager reply? Oh - let's get that taken care of immediately. > > Our friend the fire extinguisher tech brought the A&E drawings to our > office and directed us to contact the facilities engineer to get started with > design. Guess he wasn't too nervous about getting sued for pointing out > design > 'deficiency' from more than 10 years ago - he even contacted the local Fire > Marshal to alert him the work would be forthcoming...Just reporting the > facts, y'all. > > Regards to all- > > Jerry > [email protected] > > Jerry D. Watts, SFPE* > President & Co-Founder > ACCENT FIRE ENGINEERING INT'L. Ltd. > Santa Fe, New Mexico USA > (800) 503.1961 > > *Vice President - NM Chapter/SFPE > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
