Fire

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a lighting system designed to supply the illumination required for safe egress from a building in the event of a power failure.

Emergency Lighting

apparatus for automatically extinguishing fires in a building, consisting of a system of pipes in or below the ceilings, connected to a suitable water supply, and supplied with valves or sprinkler heads made to open automatically at a certain temperature.

Sprinkler System

a door providing access to a means of egress, swinging in the direction of exit travel, and usually equipped with a panic bar.

Exit Door

A system of devices and equipment which automatically detects a fire and discharges an approved fire-extinguishing agent onto or in the area of a fire.

Automatic Fire-Extinguishing System

A passage through or around a wall constructed as required for an occupancy separation, protected by ab automatic-closing fire door, and leading to an area of refuge in the same building or on approximately the same level in an adjacent building.

Horizontal Exit

Are used where the piping is subject to freezing.

Dry-Pipe System

An enclosed and protected path of escape for the occupants of a building in the event of fire, leading from an exit access to an exit Discharge.

Exit

a sprinkler system having sprinkler heads open at all times, through which water flow is controlled by a valve operated by a heat-smoke, or flame-sensing device.

Deluge System

a landing or porch projecting from the wall of a building and serving as a required means of egress.

Exterior Exit Balcony

A fire involving live electrical equipment, which requires a nonconducting extinguishing medium.

Class C Fire

A heavy duty hose for use in fighting a fire.

Fire Hose

a yard or court providing egress to a public way for one or more required exits.

Exit Court

A shaft for air, light, stairs, or an elevator, extending vertically through the floors of a building.

Well

A pipe fitting installed close to the ground on the exterior of a building, providing two or more connections through which the fire department can pump water to a standpipe or sprinkler system.

Siamese

The total number of persons that may occupy a building or portion thereof at any one time, determined by dividing the floor area assigned to a particular use by the square feet per occupant permitted in that use.

Occupant Load

Of or pertaining to a building or building area that has or is protected by a property maintained sprinkler system.

Sprinklered

A means of egress connecting a required exit or exit court with a public way, having no openings other than required exits and enclosed by fire-resistive construction as required for the walls, floors, and ceiling of the building served.

Exit Passageway

a sprinkler system containing water at sufficient pressure to provide an immediate, continuous discharge through sprinkler heads that open automatically in the event of fire.

Wet-Pipe System

an area affording safety from fire or smoke coming from the area from which escape is made.

Area Of Refuge

A Dry-Pipe sprinkler system through which water flow is controlled by a valve operated by fire-detection devices more sensitive that those in the sprinkler heads.

Preaction System

the enclosing of an exit stairway by walls of fire-resistive construction, accessible by a vestibule or by an open exterior balcony, and ventilated by natural or mechanical means to limit the penetration of smoke and heat. Building codes usually require one or more of the exit stairways for a high-rise building be protected by a ________ __________.

Smokeproof Enclosure

A fire involving ordinary combustible materials, as wood, paper and cloth, on which the quenching or cooling effect of water is of primary importance.

Class A Fire

an exit stairway down an outside wall of a building, constructed to the same standards as an interior exit stairway.

Fire Escape

A fire involving certain combustible metals, as magnesium or sodium, which requires nonreactive, heat-absorbing extinguishing medium.

Class D Fire

An upright pipe with one or more nozzles or spouts for drawing water from a main, esp. for fighting fires. Also called fire hydrant, fireplug.

Hydrant

a street, alley, or similar parcel of land open to the sky and deeded, dedicated, or otherwise permanently appropriated for the free passage and use of the general public.

Public Way

An illuminated sign identifying a required exit.

Exit Light

A portable apparatus for putting out a small fire by ejecting pressurized water or special chemicals, classified according to the type of fire it is able to extinguish.

Fire Extinguisher

a passageway serving as a required exit, enclosed by walls of fire-resistive construction. Building codes limit the length of dead-end corridors.

Exit Corridor

a nozzle in a sprinkler system for dispersing a stream or spray of water, usually controlled by a fusible link that melts at a predetermined temperature.

Sprinkler Head

That portion of a means of egress that leads from an exit to an exit court or public way

Exit Discharge

a sprinkler system containing pressurized air that is released when a sprinkler head opens in the event of fire, allowing water to flow through the piping and out the opened nozzle.

Dry-Pipe System

a continuous path of travel from any point in a building to the outside at ground level.

Means Of Egress

Are used when an accidental discharge would damage valuable materials.

Preaction System

an stairway leading to an exit Passageway, an exit court, or public way, enclosed by fire-resistive construction with self-closing fire doors that swing in the direction of exit travel.

Exit Stairway

A fire involving flammable liquids, as gasoline, oil and grease, which must be extinguished by excluding air and inhibiting the release of combustible vapors.

Class B Fire

a standpipe containing no water and used by the fire department to connect fire hoses to a fire hydrant or pumper truck.

Dry Standpipe

an exit door opening directly to an exit court or public way.

Exterior Exit

The portion of means of egress that leads to an exit. Building codes specify the maximum distance of travel to an exit and the minimum distance between exits when two or more are required.

Exit Access

A pump that provides the required water pressure in a standpipe or sprinkler system when the pressure in the system drops below a preselected value.

Fire Pump

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