- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
Fire protection for structures on property adjacent to an aerosol product manufacturing or storage facility. Fire protection for such structures shall be acceptable where located either within the jurisdiction of any public fire department or adjacent to plants having private fire brigades capable of providing cooling water streams on the adjacent property.
Industry:Fire safety
Fire in ordinary combustible materials, such as wood, cloth, paper, rubber, and many plastics.
Industry:Fire safety
Fire hose designed to be used by the building’s occupants to fight incipient fires prior to the arrival of trained fire fighters or fire brigade members.
Industry:Fire safety
Fire fighting performed inside or outside of an enclosed structure or building when the fire has not progressed beyond incipient stage.
Industry:Fire safety
Fire apparatus with a permanently mounted fire pump, foam proportioning system, and foam concentrate tank(s) whose primary purpose is for use in the control and extinguishment of flammable and combustible liquid fires in storage tanks and other flammable liquid spills.
Industry:Fire safety
Fire apparatus with a permanently mounted fire pump, a water tank, a hose storage area, an aerial ladder or elevating platform with a permanently mounted waterway, and a complement of ground ladders.
Industry:Fire safety
Fire apparatus with a permanently mounted fire pump of at least 750 gpm (3000 L/min) capacity, water tank, and hose body whose primary purpose is to combat structural and associated fires.
Industry:Fire safety
Fire apparatus with a fire pump of at least 250 gpm (1000 L/min) capacity, water tank, and hose body whose primary purpose is to initiate a fire suppression attack on structural, vehicular, or vegetation fires, and to support associated fire department operations.
Industry:Fire safety
Finely divided solids, such as powders and dusts, which emit ionizing radiation in excess of background radiation levels.
Industry:Fire safety
