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Fire alarm floor above floor below.
The occupants can then reenter the occupied space on those safe floors to await further instructions.
Upon the sounding of this slow whoop on your floor all occupants of the floor s should without putting themselves in jeopardy.
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The convective energy fire smoke heat and steam from the fire streams tend.
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 now sound on the affected floor the floor below and the floor above.
Written fire emergency requirements 3.
A first floor alarm shall transmit a fire zone message to all below grade levels.
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The fire floor floor of initiating device activation two floors below the fire floor and the floor above the fire floor.
When a fire alarm system is installed in a new high rise tourist hotel the following procedure shall be followed.
The new britain fire department said when firefighters arrived heavy fire from the middle floor had already extended to the floor above.
People were out on the back balconies.
Any initiating device will cause four floors to go into alarm.
By danny stratton firefighters working above the fire floor are in the most dangerous location at a structure fire.
Fire sprinkler system in the building 2.
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.
Multiplex fire alarm systems allow for annunciating different messages at the same time in different zones depending on which floor zone.
The evacuation alarm will be a slow whoop.
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.