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Fire hose in shopping center

Fire hose in shopping center

Fire hose in shopping center

(OP)
Hi,
I am working on a project for renovation to a retail store in a shopping mall. There comes a comment from the City that a new fire hose cabinet is required in the store because the existing fire hoses in the common area cannot provide enough coverage. However, by my observation, the fire hoses in the mall's hallway are short and could not give full coverage to most of the stores in the mall. Can I argue with the City's examiner? Is there any item in the relevant codes (e.g. NFPA 14) indicating that the fire hose is required in this case? Thank you all.

RE: Fire hose in shopping center

you can wrestle with a pig in the mud, but the pig would only enjoy it.


1. sounds like you are dealing with a non- sprinkled building   yes/ no??

2. even if not sprinkled not sure why the hose station is required.

3. the requirement will come from the building/ fire code. Have the city site a reference for you to review. and if you care to post it here.

just not enough info to tell if required or not and sounds like to many varibles. best thing first is to get them to reference where the requiement comes from and go from there.

RE: Fire hose in shopping center

Appart from the local regulations which sould rule, within the NFPA, NFPA 1 or NFPA 101 refers to the need or not of fire hose cabinets.

RE: Fire hose in shopping center

(OP)
Thank you gentlemen.

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