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Consider the post earthquake. We have an unfortunate loss of water pressure after an earthquake. The local jurisdiction are a little bit concerned about over reliance on sprinklers instead of fixed assets because of lost water. My main Fire Protection engineer, hes concerned and wants to implement if you have a tank in your building, you have the water supply, sprinkler system. They have to have some back up water already high rises need them. Except, its supposed to be 30 minutes for your most demands thats a lot of water. The minimum is 15,000 gallons. I think 25,000 was the last one i saw they were proposing. Its a pretty good size. All around San Francisco we see cisterns as well for water supply. Theres no one within sight here. But you can tell because right in the middle of an intersection, you see that. Thats a symbol for an under ground system. We have a lot of them. We can draft out of those. We can put our solid hoses in there and actually suck some water out and put some pr
1, 2009. And it relies on fire sprinklers. Can you think of any . Existing building, if people try to implement it. They may have to sprinkler their buildings. You can built the building bigger or more area. Or bring your separation a little closer together. Theres a lot of advantages to the designer. And i think we may see some of these buildings putting them in they they dont have to get the advantages. Particularly the ones downtown. You try to put the sprinklers in and they get to take advantage of the code. The new code doesnt consider the post earthquake. We have an unfortunate loss of water pressure after an earthquake. The local jurisdiction are a little bit concerned about over reliance on sprinklers instead of fixed assets because of lost water. My main Fire Protection engineer, hes concerned and wants to implement if you have a tank in your building, you have the water supply, sprinkler system. They have to have some back up water already high rises need them. Except, its su
You dont usually think about them when you look around the city unless you are looking at our fire escape repair people probably see. I hungry man sees nothing but restaurants. This particular building has residential uses and i think an apolistry shop. They would require a 5year certification and they also need their annual maintenance. Their fire escapes use this accordion ladder. Is that what you call it . Occasionally, we see problems where it comes down and theres something obstructing it on the ground. Sometimes you even see awnings. When they come in, thats something we always check if they have a fire escape. Now adays they use velcro. One thing we have here, lawrence mentioned, you need a door. If you notice here, each residential unit. These are probably each side is a different residential unit thats going out and its a case where that code evidently allowed you to use a window. Theres an exception and its on page 5. Opening for the fire escape. It can be a window and its 29
Case too. We pride ourselves on a 3minute response. We have 42 stations. We do pride ourselves to get there in a hurry and getting to where we have to go. Part of, theres a trade off. Because we have such great response time, we are able to allow some types of construction and extremely high density that would not be allowed in Building Construction one of the things in the out lying areas, if you build a new house, Single Family dwelling, you need a sprinkler, they feel its going to take, 8, 12 minutes and its only 2 guys. Whereas in San Francisco, you get at least 4 right away and probably within 6 minutes, you have 12 people. You have the advantage, we in San Francisco have not asked for that amendment. We just go with what the California Building code says. The new California Building code into into affect january 1, 2009. And it relies on fire sprinklers. Can you think of any . Existing building, if people try to implement it. They may have to sprinkler their buildings. You can bu