Fire

I am looking for the records to my apartment building to see if they are lying to the residents in the building about something affects our trash service.

Yes they are. And all you have to do is call your local fire dept and ask to see them. Also, there should be a log on the premises at all times of the local inspections.

I have selected a new home to purchase.The Fire Station is few blocks away.Will noise be too much?
Again, The new house community neither have a fitness center nor a tennis center? Will that affect its resale value?

I personally live on a major street that our fire engines use,drives me nuts.I do however live in an area of town that is say active.I would check to see if your on the major route the department uses,averages.As for the amenities? To each there own,I don’t need a tennis court/fitness center to have a great home.

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I know the red ones are for a red fire, and the yellow ones are for a yellow fire, but these blue ones, and those black ones, what are they for? Also, I have decorated in mauve and peach, do you think that will make a difference in what kind of fires I have? Where can I get a mauve fire extinguisher, I am so tired, there, I said it tired of having these contraptions clashing with the Decor.

Oh, Sweets! I have a problem with the mauve. The only thing that saves you is using peach instead of the usual pairing with various shades of blues that too many have used in decorating their homes. As far as the fire extinguishers, put one of each color in a wall grouping and frame it in with a nice peach trim. Groupings like that can make it all come together. As far as the meaning of the different colors, try one, and if the flame gets larger, try another color, until one seems to diminish the flame.

Please share with us what your barns fire safety/rescue plan is.
I was at a friends barn yesterday and it occurred to me that many facilities don’t have a rescue plan posted or even discussed with the boarders. This surprised me since I don’t board my horses, but made me question what other facility owners do.

The only place I ever boarded…did have a plan…and the stalls and barn were built for it. This was on a military installation…so I guess it went with the territory.

The barn was built ‘inside out’. Instead of a central alley with stalls on each side…the stalls were back to back…and you just had to go on either side of the building to get to ‘your’ horse. A 12×12 stall opened into an individual ‘paddock’ about 12×24 feet. That paddock opened straight into a large corral. The corral was built the entire distance of the length of the stalls and paddocks. So, all that was needed was to open gates. The stall doors were about 4 feet wide, and the paddock gate was 12 feet. The large corral also had 2 gates on each end that opened up into large pastures. Fire exstinguishers were located on each corner of building and placed every 3 stalls…where there were small tack rooms. I love the way that stable was set up. The tack rooms did go from one side of the building to the other…like small alleyways…so you could cut through to the other side.

We never had ‘drills’. But there was a ‘fire plan’ set of directions of what to do. There was a phone on one end of the barn that rang directly to the MP’s [military police] office. You just dialed 0, reported, and then open all gates to the stalls. Believe me…if there had ever been a fire…we would have had more help than necessary!

There was also other buildings, and all had the same phone line to the MP’s office. That’s the only ‘fire plan’ I’ve heard of for stables…but that’s the only place I’ve ever stabled too.

I am looking to become a certified fire investigator, and want to take fire investigator 1 and 2. I live in the Rockford, Illinois area.

most often times they take prior fire fighters for the investigation squad. …

Friend is trying to go into firefighting and wants to know what kinds of degrees are best for a Fire Chief. (A Fire Chief has to have a B.A. or B.S. that can be somehow applied to his job. However, the state college here does not offer "Fire Science" as a degree, but has Construction Management, Human Resources, Physical Education….?) Any ideas?

Emergency / Crisis management, but to be honest I feel a fire chief would be well served with a degree (usually a grad. degree) in Organizational Leadership. You’ll need to run a crew, solve problems as they come up, and make sure your engine company operates efficiently, and a degree in Organizational Leadership (or a similar graduate program in management) would help in that regard.

-Brandon
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How can the fire department know for sure ,especially when theres a huge apartment complex whther or not its real or false alarm? I know this sounds stupid but everytime they come here most times its a false alarm.How can they be sure though that it wasnt an actual fire? Is there something that they have that tells them? I see them come in but sometimes they come in for 5 seconds then say its false alarm.Is there something they check for this?

When a fire crew turn up they can look at the fire panel of the alarm system and find out what zone has made the system go in to fire or if it has a fault on it, fire normally has a red light, fault normally is indicated by an orange light.

They can then go to that zone and then either find the smoke and flames which would be immediately obvious or look for the trigger device that sounded the alarm. The trigger device could be a call point or a heat or smoke detector. The trigger device would be flashing a small red LED to indicate that it was the trigger of the alarm.
With reference to false alarms, these can take many forms. The alarm could of been set off by accident, ie someone making toast or making dust from drilling etc. in cases like these the fire alarm company need to be made aware of this so suitable steps can be taken to prevent false alarms.

In a fire can the handle on the fire alarm be puled slower than someone else? Why is it that one person might pull it a bit sower than someone else in a fire? When they are pulling the handle down what do they feel as the handle goes down? How do they make sure they have a good grip and how to let the handle go after it is pulled? What posistion would your hand need to be in to grab it and hold onto it in a strong manner to pull It?

the reason you have a hard time pulling a fire alarm when there is no fire
your concionse steps in to try and stop you. you can find yourself double maybe even triple guessing yourself.
if theres a fire
its an emergency
a fire alarm warns everbody theres a fire so you pull it with ease.
lol don’t get any ideas dude
been there done that. thats why im stuck here at UCLA

I don’t think the student house I am renting meets UK standards for fire safety. What should my landlord provide the house with in order to make it meet the standards? Also does anyone know what law or policy i should be looking at?

Extraordinarily None!! We rent private properties and they have no requirement for any smoke detectors, extinguishers etc etc – these are the responsibility of the tenants. If however, your property is rented to you by the University, then standards may apply.

I understand that some landscapes require natural fires every few years to remain healthy. We stop fires from happening near homes, and this is not good for the forest– that is why we have prescribed burns. But, how would a fire "naturally" start every few years if left untouched by humans? Is lightning the ONLY reason?

Chipmunks smoking in bed.

Ok, not really. It’s mostly lightning, but once in a while the heat from decaying vegetation causes a pile of dead plants to burst into flame in what is called spontaneous combustion. That’s why farmers let hay dry before bailing it. When they used to store bales of hay in barns, wet hay was the leading cause of barn fires.