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  2. Multiple-alarm fire - Wikipedia

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    1st alarm fire / box alarm 1st alarm fire/ "all hands" box alarm 2nd alarm fire 3rd alarm fire 4th alarm fire 5th alarm fire Engine companies: 3 5 8 12 16 21 Ladder companies: 2 4 (one operating as FAST) 5 7 9 11 Battalion Chiefs: 1 2 (one as FAST) 6 Squad companies 1 Rescue companies: Deputy Chief RAC unit 1 Satellite units Safety Battalion Chief

  3. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...

  4. Fire alarm system - Wikipedia

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    Most fire alarm systems in Europe sound like a siren with alternating frequencies. Fire alarm electronic devices are known as horns in the United States and Canada and can be continuous or set to different codes. Fire alarm warning devices can also be set to different volume levels.

  5. Underrated in America: Fire codes - AOL

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    In 50 BC the Library of Alexandria burned. In 64, Rome went up in flames, as did Amsterdam in 1421. In 1666, most of London turned to ashes, including over 13,000 homes. In an 1845 theater fire in ...

  6. NFPA 72 - Wikipedia

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    The NFPA 72 (National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code) is a standard published by the National Fire Protection Association every 3 years for installation of fire alarm systems and emergency communication systems in the United States.

  7. Fire alarm control panel - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Manual fire alarm activation - Wikipedia

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    A report by the UK-based Building Research Establishment (BRE) stated "there is a commonly held view that equipment designed to meet the European EN54 Fire detection and fire alarm systems standard cannot be used within an installation designed to the US National Fire Alarm Code, NFPA 72." In actuality, "there appears to be no requirement in ...

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