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Do apartment buildings count as high risk? Genuine question Anyway if I remember my highrise fire safety training right there is at least one building where on
by burnished 3y ago
Do apartment buildings count as high risk? Genuine question
Anyway if I remember my highrise fire safety training right there is at least one building where on sprinkler going off sets the others off. IIRC the pressure drop from one unit activating triggered a pump and the subsequent increase in pressure popped the other.
- wkat4242 3y agoNo they don't. Only industrial places like storage of flammables or high-dust that can cause explosions. Of course it would be quite annoying to have your apartment flooded because one of the neighbours let their pizza burn :P
- burnished 3y agoCool, thank you for clarifying! A burning pizza just kicks off the fire alarm, not the sprinklers. Frankly I don't remember much past the the whole drop in pressure detection leading to kickoff of other sprinklers thing to suggest what level of partitioning occurred .
- quickthrowman 3y agoPerhaps you’re thinking of how the jockey pump and main pump work together in a sprinkler system. A jockey pump maintains pressure in the system and is sized at less than the flow rate of one sprinkler head. The main fire pump is activated when a pressure transmitter detects a drop in pressure. The jockey pump can’t maintain pressure when a sprinkler head opens, and the drop in pressure starts the main fire pump.