Standpipe hose systems can be effectively used in the incipient stage (after everyone is safe and the fire department has been called), often extinguishing the fire before automatic systems activate.

This educational video is intended to help saves lives and protect property by giving building owners, managers and occupants an overview of standpipe rack hose systems and the importance of these ...

Additional considerations are related to your standard hose loads and lengths, the types of stairs encountered, the type of standpipe system and the possibility of performing a rope stretch.

In our first article in this series, we broke the ice as to the need for a standpipe hose system that consists of multiple items. The “system” that we identified consists of three ...

Components of a standpipe and hose system are hose stations, water supply, water-flow control valves, risers, pressure-regulating devices, and a fire department connection.

Standpipes are helpful in fighting high-rise fires, but nothing is as effective as a sprinkler system—which the 29 th floor of the Chicago building lacked.

The system allows firefighters to attach their hoses directly to the particular floor's standpipe valve — often located in stairwells of skyscrapers — rather than waste precious time carrying ...

The rules are fairly clear for building owners in Massachusetts. If their structures have standpipes — a key fire-suppression system that channels water to upper and underground floors — they ...

A FIRE chief got in hot water after he used station equipment to fill his prized back garden swimming pool with 20,000 litres of water. David Ballingall, 38, fixed a specialist standpipe and hose t… ...