Fire Cabinet

The purpose of the fire cabinet is to use water or foam extinguishers to quickly respond to fires in buildings and facilities.

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Fire Extinguisher

Fire Extinguishing Equipment — A fire extinguisher must be regularly inspected and maintained to be effective. A fire extinguisher is a portable device used for fire extinguishing purposes.

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Hydrant is a connection made to the main fire supply line in order to take water from the main fire supply line to the hose and other fire protection devices.

Hydrant is a connection made to the main fire supply line in order to take water from the main fire supply line to the hose and other fire protection devices. Fire hydrant is the name given to the openings left for the fire department to connect during the fire response. During the fire, water is supplied to the fire trucks with hydrants placed at certain intervals outside the building or the fire can be intervened by connecting the hose directly. The connections of the hydrant lines are fed from the city water network or from the fire pump in large enterprises.

Hydrant System Design Information According to the provisions of the regulation on the protection of buildings from fire;

1- In order to protect structures from fire, hydrants to be placed within the hydrant system, which will cover the entire perimeter of the structure or building as much as possible in order to intervene from the outside in fires that cannot be extinguished in the first intervention, should be arranged in a way that firefighters and their vehicles can easily approach and connect.

2- The design flow rate of the hydrant system must be at least 1900 l/min. The flow rate is increased according to the danger class of the building. There must be a pressure of 700 kPa at the hydrant outlet.

3- The distance between hydrants is taken as 50 m in very risky areas, 100 m in risky areas, 125 m in medium risky areas and 150 m in low risky areas.

4- Under normal conditions, hydrants are placed an average of 5 to 15 m away from the protected buildings.

5- If there is no ring system in the piping that supplies water to the hydrant system, the diameter of the smallest pipe that can be used must be 100 mm and must be determined according to hydraulic calculations.

6- The hydrants to be used in the system must be aboveground fire hydrants that comply with the relevant Turkish Standards. Underground or aboveground or both underground and aboveground line cut-off valves are provided and installed at appropriate points and locations in the hydrant system to facilitate hydrant renewal and maintenance operations. 

7- If the total floor area of ​​buildings to be built in residential areas that have all kinds of usage areas and are planned separately from general residential areas is greater than 5000 m2, it is mandatory to install an external hydrant system. 

8- Municipalities that have residential areas that do not have access to and where vehicles in service in their areas of responsibility cannot enter or maneuver are obliged to have aboveground fire hydrants or fire pools and cisterns equipped with pumps of sufficient capacity built in appropriate locations of these residential areas in order to effectively intervene in fires that may occur in these areas.
 

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