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US experience shows that 98% of all fires in dwellings fitted with a sprinkler system are extinguished with only one sprinkler head operating. Sprinkler heads are activated by heat from the fire and only the sprinkler heads in the immediate vicinity of the fire actually operate.
Sprinkler heads can be completely concealed. Sprinkler systems do not need pumps or tanks if mains water pressure is adequate. Buildings fitted with a sprinkler system prevent Fire-fighter’s deaths.
The Advantages of Sprinklers are manufactured
to exacting standards and the chance of a single head
malfunction is around 14,000,000 to 1. Alarm switches
can be built into the system to call the fire services
in the event of the system being activated. US experience
shows that 98% of all fires in dwellings fitted with
a sprinkler system are extinguished with only one sprinkler
head operating. Sprinkler heads are activated by heat
from the fire and only the sprinkler heads in the immediate
vicinity of the fire actually operate.
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