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Fire control is the practice of reducing the heat output of a fire, reducing the area over which the fire exists, or suppressing or extinguishing the fire by depriving it of fuel, oxygen, or heat (see fire triangle). Fire prevention and control is the prevention, detection, and extinguishment of fires, including such secondary activities as ...
Suitably qualified and experienced fire protection engineers may qualify for registration as a professional engineer. The recognition of fire protection engineering as a separate discipline varies from state to state in the United States. [24] NCEES recognizes Fire Protection Engineering as a separate discipline and offers a PE exam subject. [25]
North East (NE) Belmont Business Park, Durham: Durham and Darlington, Tyne and Wear, Cleveland and Northumberland. May 2011 – November 2011 [7] [11] North West (NW) Lingley Mere Business Park, Warrington: Cumbria, Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside Fire and Rescue Services. January 2012 – May 2012 [7] [12] South East (SE)
Coded panels were the earliest type of central fire alarm control, and were made during the 1800s to the 1970s. A coded panel is similar in many ways to a modern conventional panel (described below), except each zone was connected to its own code wheel, which, depending on the way the panel was set up, would either do sets of four rounds of code until the initiating pull station was reset ...
Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of potentially destructive fires. [1] [2] It involves the study of the behaviour, compartmentalisation, suppression and investigation of fire and its related emergencies, as well as the research and development, production, testing and application of mitigating systems.
Fire management may refer to: Fire prevention, preventing unwanted fires such as house fires, forest fires, and industrial fires; Fire control, preventing unwanted spread of fires; Fire § Fire management, the skilled modulation of a fire for cooking, heating, or smithing purposes
A defensible space, in the context of fire control, is a natural or landscaped area around a structure that has been maintained and designed to reduce fire danger. The practice is sometimes called firescaping. [1] "Defensible space" is also used in the context of wildfires, especially in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). [2]
In the event of a fire, a smoke control system is used to keep a building's escape routes and access routes free from smoke, assist fire-fighting operations and delay or prevent flashover, thereby reducing the risk that the fire will escalate. [1]