Fire safety living in the country

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Having supervised the installation of several million square feet of commercial space fire sprinklers (mostly public schools), the general consensus among the architects and engineers is that if a third head goes off in a fire, the building is lost!

It is not that bad:laughing: NFPA 13 sprinkler designs require between 10-20 sprinklers to be calculated going off in a fire depending on the occupancy. This means the ceiling pipe, water mains, fire pump etc. are all sized to supply the 10-20 sprinklers operating at the same time. The higher the fire loading such as a warehouse the more sprinklers are calculated i.e. 20.