3. Causes – House fires & Commercial fires
Electrical fault
Equipment fault
Making fire in appropriate areas.
Furnaces, boilers, Human errors
4. Chaos – Fire Break
Panic, Smoke, Heat, Fire, Accidents etc.
5. Passive fire protection – Embedded in structural and non- structural
members of the building based on norms – Fire Walls, Fire
staircase, Refuge area, Compartmentalisation, Fire lifts etc.
Active fire protection – Sprinklers, detection systems, Alarms,
extinguishers, risers, etc.
Education – Fire drills, Awareness, Fire safety plan
Fire protection – typical layers
6. Risers – Dry and Wet
Dry riser Wet riser
Fire fighting arrangements within building through vertical rising mains