Fire Alarm Floor Above Floor Below

I m familiar with the requirements of pas but was not aware that to program a high rise fire alarm system as floor above floor below we would have to conform to these requirements.

Fire alarm floor above floor below.

New buildings 150 ft. Staff training documentation of such 4. By danny stratton firefighters working above the fire floor are in the most dangerous location at a structure fire. The occupants of the fire floor and floors immediately above and below it should immediately use the exit stairs to descend to a floor level that is at least a few floors below the fire floor.

The evacuation alarm will be a slow whoop. The occupants can then reenter the occupied space on those safe floors to await further instructions. In addition the visual alarm indicating circuit s shall be activated on the floor of alarm origin the floor immediately above the floor of origin and one floor immediately below the floor of origin. Any initiating device will cause four floors to go into alarm.

The other problem is when the building has zoned evacuation as in a high rise building where only the fire floor the floor above and the floor below are evacuated on the initial alarm yet occupants located near the stairs throughout the building can hear the alarm in the stairwell. The new britain fire department said when firefighters arrived heavy fire from the middle floor had already extended to the floor above. Fire sprinkler system in the building 2. A first floor alarm shall transmit a fire zone message to all below grade levels.

People were out on the back balconies. The ahj may require all floors to be notified only the floor in alarm to be notified or a combination of floors local to the alarm floor above and floor below one floor below and two floors above etc. The evacuation alarm will now sound on the affected floor the floor below and the floor above. This can result in considerable confusion questions from.

The convective energy fire smoke heat and steam from the fire streams tend. Thanks for the responses guys. Upon the sounding of this slow whoop on your floor all occupants of the floor s should without putting themselves in jeopardy. They couldn t get.

Multiplex fire alarm systems allow for annunciating different messages at the same time in different zones depending on which floor zone.