Blue Book/Building Safety Equipment

Steve Roth/Chuck Singer

Fire and Emergency Services

4040 Chestnut St

Philadelphia, PA 19104

215-573-7857

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Water-Based Fire Extinguishing Systems

• Sprinklers

• Standpipes

• Fire pumps

• Others

Sprinklers

• Most common – Wet systems – Dry systems (Dry pipe valve)

• Many OFSA properties, loading docks, attics

– Pre-action • Chem ‘73, Vance, Weiss

– Deluge (open heads)

• 73 (58%) fully sprinklered

• 39 (31%) partial

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Common Sprinkler head types

Concealed head Sidewall head

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Sprinkler valves

OS&Y open valve OS&Y closed valve

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Sprinkler shut off valves

Sectional floor s/o valve Sectional floor s/o valve

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Standpipes

• Class I – 2 ½” Hose connections – Wet

– Dry

– Manual Wet (not enough pressure maintained w/out PFD)

• Class II – 1 ½” Hose connections – AKA occupant –use system

– 1st aid system (usually within cabinets on floors)

• Class III – system with combination of I & II

• 82 buildings have wet standpipes (approx. 10 primarily Class II)

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Standpipe Outlets

Class II (1st aid cabinet-1 ½”) Class I (2 ½”)

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FDC’s continued

Obstructed view Proper signage

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Fire Pumps

• Electric (most common on campus) – 26 pumps in FRES buildings

• Diesel – 5 pumps

• Total – 31 for U of Pa buildings – Some serve more than 1 bldg

• Stellar-Chance/ Blockley Goddard/Richards

• SPW & SPE Franklin/Annex

• VP/Dietrich library Levy Dental/Shattner

• Levine/GRW Museum (all 3 bldgs)

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Diesel Fire Pump

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Other systems

Ansul Dry/Wet Chemical Manual pull activation

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PENN EMERGENCY TEAM

BUILDING EMERGENY COORDINATOR (ORANGE ARM BAND)

EMERGENCY TEAM LEADER (YELLOW ARM BAND)

EMERGENCY TEAM MEMBER (WHITE ARM BAND)

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Questions

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