Arnold Howard on thu 7 jul 05
I know of a kiln in Texas, USA that set off the fire sprinkler system in a
school. The kiln was firing at night, so no one was there to turn off the
sprinkler. The entire school was flooded, and the damage was expensive. This
is one more reason not to leave a kiln firing at night.
If your building has a sprinkler system, position the sprinkler heads away
from the kilns. You could perhaps use a higher temperature sprinkler head in
the kiln room or the type that senses smoke rather than heat.
Sincerely,
Arnold Howard
Paragon Industries, L.P., Mesquite, Texas USA
ahoward@paragonweb.com / www.paragonweb.com
Earl Brunner on fri 8 jul 05
One of our middle schools just tried to burn down, on the 5th, they think
kids were still playing with fireworks near or in the school; over 6 million
dollars worth of damage. No sprinkler system since it was built back in the
late 50's (really really OLD for Vegas). Anyway the district spokesperson
on the news explained that they could spend money retrofitting old schools
with sprinklers or try to keep up with growth by building new ones, but
didn't have the money to do both. He went on to explain that when they do
major retrofit at a school they add the sprinklers. Since we are scheduled
for "major" retrofit at our school for the second time in the 15 years I've
been teaching there, I asked the planner guy yesterday if we were getting
sprinklers since we hadn't got them the last time. Poor guy, almost wet his
pants laughing so hard.
Earl Brunner
Las Vegas, NV
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From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Arnold Howard
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:57 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Unattended Kiln Firing: sprinkler systems
I know of a kiln in Texas, USA that set off the fire sprinkler system in a
school. The kiln was firing at night, so no one was there to turn off the
sprinkler. The entire school was flooded, and the damage was expensive. This
is one more reason not to leave a kiln firing at night.
If your building has a sprinkler system, position the sprinkler heads away
from the kilns. You could perhaps use a higher temperature sprinkler head in
the kiln room or the type that senses smoke rather than heat.
Sincerely,
Arnold Howard
Paragon Industries, L.P., Mesquite, Texas USA
ahoward@paragonweb.com / www.paragonweb.com
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