Magma 1 manual Fire Fighting Fire Extinguishers, Hose Reel, Hydrants, Sprinklers

ƒInform Facility Manager office by phone who will depute the Security personnel or a Facility Manager/ Facility Engineer/executive on the floor where the fire is reported

ƒGas mask should be made available by the clients for their respective Coordinator/Marshal along with Fire Proof / Heat Proof Gloves & Helmet

2.2Fire Fighting

(a) Fire Extinguishers

Portable extinguishers are fitted at different locations in the common area meant to fight different types of fire –

Fire extinguisher plan on your floor is as follows: The clients must install adequate number of extinguishers in the office space and all employees be made aware of the location and its operation.

No.	Location	Fire Extinguisher Class, Type and Size
01	Service stair landing of each floor, Tower-I	Water CO2 - 01 (9 lit) / DCP - 01 (5 kg)
02	Service stair landing of each floor, Tower-II	Water CO2 – 01 / DCP - 01
03	Main stair landing of each floor, Tower –I	Water CO2 - 01
04	Main stair landing of each floor, Tower –II	Water CO2 – 01 / DCP - 01

The extinguishers may be categorized further according to the type of fire for which they can be utilized. For all practical purposes, the basic types of fire may be grouped into the following four classes –

ƒClass “A” Fires - Fires involving combustible materials of organic nature such as wood, paper, rubber and many plastics, etc where the cooling effect of water is essential for extinguishing fire (water CO2 should be used)

ƒClass “B” Fires - Fires involving flammable liquids, petroleum products, or the like, where a blanketing effect is essential (D.C. P. or Foam should be used)

ƒClass “C” Fires - Fires involving flammable gasses under pressure, including liquefied gasses, where it is necessary to inhibit the burning gas at a very rapid rate with an inert gas, powder or vaporizing liquid (D. C. P. should be used).

ƒClass “D” Fires - Fires involving combustible metals such as magnesium, aluminum, zinc, sodium, potassium, etc. When the burning metals are reactive to water and water-containing agents, and in certain cases carbon dioxide, halogen hydrocarbons and ordinary dry powders. These fires require special media and techniques before they can be extinguished.

ƒElectrical Fires: Fires involving electrical equipments /cables etc which can be extinguished with the help of Carbon-di-oxide type or D.C.P type extinguisher.

(b) Hose Reel

Every floor of Tower-I and Tower-II is provided with Hose Reel which contains a rubber hose of 30 meters length and connected to the Hydrant line through a gate valve. In addition each floor is provided with a hose box which contains canvas hose of 15 meters length and a branch pipe (nozzle).

(c) Hydrants

These Hydrant Adopters are fitted on landings at each floor on the main stairs and on the external area around the building.

(d) Sprinklers

Floor-wise sprinkler is provided which will activate automatically when the temperature around the sprinkler reached 68º C.

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