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  2. Standpipe (firefighting) - Wikipedia

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    External access point for fire sprinkler and dry standpipe at a building in San Francisco, US Antique wet standpipe preserved at Edison and Ford Winter Estates. A standpipe or riser is a type of rigid water piping which is built into multi-story buildings in a vertical position, or into bridges in a horizontal position, to which fire hoses can be connected, allowing manual application of water ...

  3. North American Fire Hose Coupler Incompatibilities - Wikipedia

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    1-inch hose with 1-8 NH NFPA threads (NFPA 1963 requirement; a.k.a. "Chemical Hose Thread" and "Booster Hose Thread" [7]; the chemical hose thread term likely originates from its use on chemical fire engines, an early firefighting device used from 1872 until the 1930s that used a combination of bicarbonate of soda and sulfuric acid to force ...

  4. Fire hose - Wikipedia

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    Fire hose is usually manufactured in a plant that specializes in providing hose products to municipal, industrial, and forestry fire departments. Here is a typical sequence of operations used to manufacture a double jacket, rubber-lined fire hose. [17] Preparing the yarn. There are two different fiber yarns that are woven together to form a ...

  5. Hose pack - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] These types of hose packs are considered progressive hose packs. When deployed they always have laterals off the trunk line that allow water to be used at any point in the progression of the hose lay. [4] In structure fire fighting the main type of hose pack is the high-rise pack. It is used in conjunction with standpipes in high rise ...

  6. Firestop - Wikipedia

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    They receive a fire rating by combining materials in an arrangement specific to the item (a pipe or cable, for example) penetrating the fire-rated wall or floor and the construction arrangement of the fire-rated wall or floor. A two-hour-rated pipe-penetration firestop may consist of a layer of caulking over packed mineral wool. The arrangement ...

  7. Firewall (construction) - Wikipedia

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    A building under construction, showing the structurally independent cinderblock firewalls subdividing the building Building 4 of the Waynesboro Outlet Village, showing a concrete firewall running through the building Concrete firewalls still standing on Building 7 of the former Waynesboro Outlet Village, following a firefighter training exercise which intentionally burned the building

  8. Mattydale lay - Wikipedia

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    Most modern American fire apparatus use some sort of variation of the Mattydale lay. [3] [4] [5] There are several different types of "hose loads" in use, which is the way the hose is folded in the lay: Accordion load – The hose is loaded so that when it is flat, it is standing on end. The finished load resembles an accordion.

  9. Serviceability (structure) - Wikipedia

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    Serviceability limit state design of structures includes factors such as durability, overall stability, fire resistance, deflection, cracking and excessive vibration. For example, a skyscraper could sway severely and cause the occupants to be sick (much like sea-sickness ), yet be perfectly sound structurally.

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