Fire Alarm Floor Above Floor Below

The evacuation alarm will be a slow whoop.

Fire alarm floor above floor below. When a fire alarm system is installed in a new high rise tourist hotel the following procedure shall be followed. By danny stratton firefighters working above the fire floor are in the most dangerous location at a structure fire. Upon the sounding of this slow whoop on your floor all occupants of the floor s should without putting themselves in jeopardy. Thanks for the responses guys.

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 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. 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 fire floor floor of initiating device activation two floors below the fire floor and the floor above the fire floor. The occupants can then reenter the occupied space on those safe floors to await further instructions. 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. A first floor alarm shall transmit a fire zone message to all below grade levels.

New buildings 150 ft. This can result in considerable confusion questions from. The convective energy fire smoke heat and steam from the fire streams tend. 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.

Fire sprinkler system in the building 2. Multiplex fire alarm systems allow for annunciating different messages at the same time in different zones depending on which floor zone. They couldn t get. Staff training documentation of such 4.

People were out on the back balconies.