- 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.
Use or storage as a subordinate activity to that which establishes the occupancy or area classification.
Industry:Fire safety
The time that the telephone is answered in the first PSAP center.
Industry:Fire safety
To draw in air; nozzle-aspirating systems draw air into the nozzle to mix with the foam solution.
Industry:Fire safety
Those activities directed at locating endangered persons at an emergency incident, removing those persons from danger, treating the injured, and providing for transport to an appropriate health care facility. .
Industry:Fire safety
This is the most common type of hydrant; it has a control valve below the frost line between the footpiece and the barrel. A drain is located at the bottom of the barrel above the control valve seat for proper drainage after operation.
Industry:Fire safety
Those systems having predetermined flow rates, nozzle pressures, and water quantities.
Industry:Fire safety
Warehouse facilities established to house books and other collections.
Industry:Fire safety
Three-second gust speed at 33 ft (10 m) above the ground in Exposure C as determined in accordance with ASCE/SEI 7, Section 6. 5. 4.
Industry:Fire safety
Those systems required and so classed as legally required standby by municipal, state, federal, or other codes or by any governmental agency having jurisdiction. These systems are intended to automatically supply power to selected loads (other than those classed as emergency systems) in the event of failure of the normal source.
Industry:Fire safety
Those plastics, the density of which is reduced by the presence of numerous small cavities (cells), interconnecting or not, dispersed throughout their mass.
Industry:Fire safety
