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The Department of Traffic and Public Safety, directed by Lola Sánchez, through the Fire and Rescue Extinction Service, is preparing regulations to regulate various aspects that affect the signaling of different firefighting infrastructures such as hydrants installed on the public thoroughfare And the dry columns that are used in singular and high-rise buildings.
For them, the council has already begun the tasks necessary to signal the more than a thousand hydrants located on the public thoroughfare of the urban center and the districts, taking advantage of the maintenance tasks that must be carried out periodically in these facilities.
The signs that have begun to be placed in this month of August comply with what is established in the corresponding UNE standard, and the size of their surface allows them to be visible at least twenty meters away as established by the signaling and security regulations in the job.
The last object of the aforementioned signaling is the easy location by the fire services in their interventions thus improving safety in the field the actions of the emergency services.
This sign is rectangular, with the background in white and the outer framing band in red, and it will be located on the facade of the buildings indicating the distance to which the hydrant is and the characteristics of this one.
In the case of dry-column systems, whose maintenance obligations correspond to the ownership of the building, the fire service as an exclusive user of these facilities is precisely intended to regulate the way in which they must be signposted immediately next to the closet and Not on the same, identifying the plants or zones that serve each water intake, as well as the maximum service pressure.
The fire service needs to know so much that the facilities are properly maintained and that the signaling does not lead to any kind of inconsistency, so that there is an absolute guarantee that the aforementioned facility is available for use in case of a urgency.
This is in line with the recent approval of the new Regulation on Fire Protection Facilities, Royal Decree 513/2017 of 22 May published in the BOE on June 12, 2017, which incorporates some modifications that are applicable To fire installations for the exclusive use of fire services, and which will come into effect from next December.
The hydrants are elements that are located on the public highway, either on the surface or buried, which are permanently connected to the water network and are the main source of supply for refueling fire trucks in their performances.
The dry column system of certain buildings is a vertical water pipe, which has a cupboard on the main façade of the building and serves as a connection so that, if necessary, Firefighters and give water to the aforementioned facility.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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