The owner of an illegal rooming house in Toronto’s west end has been slapped with a $60,000 fine after a fire at the home killed a tenant just under two years ago. The home’s owner will be on probation for 18 months and cannot possess or manage a rental property during that time.
FM-approved FireChek thermal shutoffs with resettable memory shape alloy can now be used to automatically shut down a pneumatic control system when a nearby fire occurs, or when the ambient temperature reaches 135, 150, or 165⁰ F. The testability and reset ability of the FireChek separate it from emergency isolation valves that rely on fusible links or plastic burn-through tubing.
Insitu, the Boeing Subsidiary that makes unmanned aircraft systems, is helping emergency responders in Washington State as they work to tame wildfires that have spread across the Pacific Northwest, destroying and threatening thousands of homes. The company recently flew its ScanEagle surveillance drone over the Paradise Fire in Washington’s Olympic National Park.
A campaign from New Zealand came up with an interesting idea to remind people to check their smoke alarms are working. It stresses how smoke alarms are our “only voice”, in other words our sole warning, in the event of a danger at night, by giving them human form.
Definition:
Any premise where flammable or combustible liquids are dispensed from fixed equipment into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles, watercraft or floatplanes.
Above Ground Tanks
Location
Outside buildings
Underground Tanks
Emergency Shut-off Device
Must be clearly identified, readily accessible and shielded from any fire
Portable Extinguishers –
Areas that handle flammable or combustible liquids are classified as extra hazard locations and require a minimum of two 10BC rated portable fire extinguishers to be located within a travel distance of 9 metres.
Delivery Hose
No Smoking Signs required 200mm 25 mm high letters
Fire Safety Plan
The BC Fire Code requires a Fire Safety Plan which includes instructions to staff on how to deal with emergencies and measures to deal with spills.
Supervision
Spill Protection
Inventory Control for Underground Storage Tanks
Leak Detection Tools
Measurements
The fire prevention awareness and company inspection training program is designed to raise the awareness level about fire prevention and to train on-duty fire suppression staff to confidently perform company level fire prevention inspections of low occupant load – low risk buildings in your community. Target buildings are those in Occupancy Groups A2, C, D, E or F1 that have a history of compliance or have only experienced minor fire safety deficiencies in the past. This sector will probably comprise over 70 percent of the public buildings in your community.
Fire season is just getting started, but already the country has seen twice the number of forest fires compared to last year. To date, 2,549 fires had ignited across 263,201 hectares of forest. Compare that to the same time last year: there were only 1,195 fires that had burned just 25,866 hectares.
It’s been a year since a warehouse exploded nearly killed three Mississauga firefighters. The trio were trying to enter a side door of the building when the explosion occurred and a cinder block wall came down on them. After a lengthy investigation charges have been laid under the fire protection and prevention act against the owner and the corporation. The allegations have not yet been proven in court.
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Victoria fire inspectors have discovered that fewer multi-unit buildings were compromised than originally thought after only six access keys were determined to be missing from the nearly 500 buildings lock boxes. The fire department said that 35 keys were missing from the boxes on the outside of commercial or residential buildings but after checking with property managers, fire inspectors determined some of the lock vaults were empty because no keys had been stored in them. All of Victoria Fire Department’s master keys are accounted for leaving the fire department and police unsure how someone could have breached the lock boxes.
You would think the U.S. Forest Service would have a sophisticated fire-prevention network in place but apparently nothing beats a human being with a pair of binoculars and a healthy knowledge of the forest mountain tops for spotting a brush fire. The U.S. Forest Service’s fire-fighting force includes a platoon of retired folks who trudge up a mountain always keeping their eyes peeled for puffs of smoke.