- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A solid barrier in the horizontal position covering the entire rack, including all flue spaces at certain height increments, to prevent vertical fire spread.
Industry:Fire safety
A sock-like extension of the garment leg worn in conjunction with other footwear components.
Industry:Fire safety
A smoke-control system that shares components with some other system(s), such as the building HVAC system, which changes its mode of operation to achieve the smoke-control objective.
Industry:Fire safety
A smoke plume that originates from a compartment fire, flows out the doorway, flows under a balcony, and flows upward after passing the balcony edge.
Industry:Fire safety
A smoke or vent stack with a flue that has a cross-sectional area of the flue greater than 0. 3 m2 (500 in. 2) and a height greater than 23 m (75 ft).
Industry:Fire safety
A small, handheld unit with manually operated switches that control the flow of electric current to electric matches attached to fireworks devices.
Industry:Fire safety
A small nozzle(s) mounted in front of the vehicle that disperses foam solution in front to provide protection.
Industry:Fire safety
A small igniter applied particularly to fuel gas and fuel oil burners to ignite the fuel input to the burner under prescribed light-off conditions. The capacity of such igniters generally does not exceed 4 percent of the full load burner fuel input.
Industry:Fire safety
A small gasoline engine, diesel engine, or electric motor-driven hydraulic pump used to operate an aerial device in an emergency or in lieu of the main hydraulic system.
Industry:Fire safety
