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  2. NFPA 72 - Wikipedia

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    Federal, state, and local municipalities across the United States have adopted the NFPA 72 as a standard in the enforcement of fire code regulation. Municipalities often adopt revisions of the code after years of review and amendments, making many local fire codes specific to their governing authorities. Keeping a thorough record of fire alarm ...

  3. Fire alarm notification appliance - Wikipedia

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    A fire alarm notification appliance is an active fire protection component of a fire alarm system. A notification appliance may use audible, visible, or other stimuli to alert the occupants of a fire or other emergency condition requiring action. Audible appliances have been in use longer than any other method of notification.

  4. Manual fire alarm activation - Wikipedia

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    Manual fire alarm activation. An activated manual call point in Japan. Telephone jacks are visible beneath the open cover. Manual fire alarm activation is the process of triggering a fire alarm through a call point, pull station, or other device. This usually causes the alarm to sound the evacuation signal for the relevant building or zone.

  5. Fire alarm system - Wikipedia

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    A fire alarm notification appliance as widely used under North American standards. A fire alarm system is a building system designed to detect, alert occupants, and alert emergency forces of the presence of fire, smoke, carbon monoxide, or other fire-related emergencies. Fire alarm systems are required in most commercial buildings.

  6. NFPA 704 - Wikipedia

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    NFPA 704 safety squares on containers of ethyl alcohol and acetone. " NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response " is a standard maintained by the U.S. -based National Fire Protection Association. First "tentatively adopted as a guide" in 1960, [ 1] and revised several times since then ...

  7. Fire alarm control panel - Wikipedia

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    A single-zone alarm control panel. A fire alarm control panel ( FACP ), fire alarm control unit ( FACU ), fire indicator panel ( FIP ), or simply fire alarm panel is the controlling component of a fire alarm system. The panel receives information from devices designed to detect and report fires, monitors their operational integrity, and ...

  8. Optical beam smoke detector - Wikipedia

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    An optical beam smoke detector is a device that uses a projected beam of light to detect smoke across large areas, [ 1] typically as an indicator of fire. [ 2] They are used to detect fires in buildings where standard point smoke detectors would either be uneconomical [ 3] or restricted for use by the height of the building.

  9. Smoke detector - Wikipedia

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    A smoke detector is a device that senses smoke, typically as an indicator of fire. Smoke detectors/Alarms are usually housed in plastic enclosures, typically shaped like a disk about 150 millimetres (6 in) in diameter and 25 millimetres (1 in) thick, but shape and size vary. Smoke can be detected either optically ( photoelectric) or by physical ...

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