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 Ozone Depleting Substance (CFC-11) Spikes in Atmosphere - Is Illegal Production to Blame?
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5/18/18
By Bryan Lynn
VOA Learning English
Scientists have found that levels of a now-banned chemical are rising again in Earth's atmosphere.
The chemical is called CFC-11. It is the second most common kind of CFC, short for chlorofluorocarbon.
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Fike Charges into Fluoroketone Market
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 4/12/18
By MDM Publishing Ltd
Gulf Fire
With its recent launch of chemical clean agent FK-5-1-12, Fike International Sdn. Bhd. now features one of the most diverse and comprehensive fire suppression lineups for use in both commercial and industrial environments.
FK-5-1-12 is the most eco-friendly chemical clean agent available. It offers all the effectiveness of other chemical agent solutions but with zero ozone-depleting potential and a global warming potential of just one.
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Fire Suppression System Association Lays Out 5 Year Plan
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In 2017, the FSSA Board of Directors created a strategic plan that will span the next five years. Four goals were approved and are the core competencies that will serve the members and advance the mission. Three of the goals are external deliverables to the members and industry, while the fourth is internal, referring to the infrastructure and governance of FSSA.
It will be a continual focus of the board of directors and committees with progress reviewed regularly.
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Sprinkler System Adds to Woes at Mercedes Supplier Plant Fire
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In this May 2, 2018, file photo, emergency personnel respond to a fire at Meridian Magnesium Products of America in Eaton Rapids, Mich.
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5/22/18
By William Thornton
Alabama Media Group
A May 2 fire at an auto supplier plant in Michigan which shut down SUV production at Vance's Mercedes-Benz plant triggered an explosion when fire suppression systems added water to molten magnesium.
That's according to a report from Eaton Rapids (Mich.) Fire Chief Roger McNutt, which was released Monday, the Detroit Free Press reported. The force of the explosion underlined the point many officials made earlier this month - that it was a miracle no one was killed.
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| Suppression System Mishap Shuts Down Healthcare Communications |
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Sutter Santa Rosa Hospital in 2017 (Beth Schlanker/PD)
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5/15/18
By Martin Espinoza
The Press Democrat
Sutter Health experienced a system-wide problem with its electronic communications systems Tuesday, including its internal communications systems and electronic health records, officials said.
The "network outage" began around 10:30 p.m. Monday and affected all 24 hospitals in the Sutter system. It was caused by the activation of the fire- suppression system in Sutter Health's data center in Sacramento, according to an internal message sent by text to Sutter employees.
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| Halon System Malfunction Causes Emergency Landing |
5/25/18
By Melissa Hudson
ABC57 News
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A Delta plane made an emergency landing at the South Bend International Airport Friday afternoon around 6:15 p.m.
The landing was made because of a halon leak or explosion. Halon is commonly used in fire extinguishers.
The passenger plane was a flight from South Bend to Atlanta.
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| Student Data Lost After Server Fire - Suppression System Triggered |
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5/9/18
By CJ Lovelace
Herald-Mail Media
Washington County Public Schools is trying to recover student data - including grades and attendance records - that was apparently not properly backed up and permanently lost following a minor fire that downed multiple servers more than a week ago.
Some servers were quickly restored, but the one supporting the district's Synergy student system that stores student information - including attendance records, grades and schedules - has created the most challenges for technology staffers.
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| NJ State Government Network Taken Down by Fire Suppression System |
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6/4/18
By David Wildstein
New Jersey Globe
The entire online network for the State of New Jersey was knocked offline on Saturday, June 2nd when a fire suppression system activated at the state Data Center took the entire place down.
"Since then, New Jersey Office of Information Technology has been working around the clock to bring the Data Center back online as quickly as possible. The Data Center is currently 99% operational. NJOIT expects it to be fully online today," Dan Bryan, a spokesman for Gov. Phil Murphy, told the New Jersey Globe.
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| EU to Give Thumbs-Up to UTC-Rockwell Collins Deal |
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FILE PHOTO: United Technologies logo is displayed on a screen at the post where its stock is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., September 5, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
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5/2/18
By Foo Yun Chee
U.S. News & World Report
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -- U.S. aerospace and industrial company United Technologies Corp is set to win EU approval for the largest aerospace deal in history, a $23 billion bid for avionics maker Rockwell Collins, people familiar with the matter said.
The deal, announced in September last year, would create a new player in the top echelon of suppliers to Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier and other plane makers.
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| US Firms Press Trump Administration to Refer Kigali Amendment to Senate |
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5/28/18
By Michael Garry
Hydrocarbons 21
Letter to president signed by Hillphoenix, Danfoss North America, Emerson, Johnson Controls, Lennox International and Structural Concepts and 26 others
In a letter on May 18 to President Donald Trump - and copied to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - 32 top executives of HVAC&R companies urged that he submit the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
The Kigali Amendment, which calls for a global phase-down of HFCs, has so far been ratified by 35 of 197 signatory nations, and will go into effect for ratified nations on January 1, 2019.
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"Hot Flowers" Activate Fire Alarm - Cause Emergency Landing of 747
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Heat from a consignment of flowers is believed to have activated a fire alarm on a cargo jet, forcing it to make an emergency landing at Shannon Airport. Photograph: Press 22
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5/13/18
By Pat Flynn
The Irish Times
Cargo plane flying from US to Holland makes emergency landing at Shannon airport
Heat from a consignment of flowers is believed to have activated a fire alarm on board a cargo jet carrying horses that made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport on Saturday.
A major multi-agency emergency plan, that included the Irish Coast Guard and RNLI, was put into action up to an hour before the jet entered Irish airspace.
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| Market for "Giant" Batteries Sparks Fire Fear |
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5/18/18
By Mark Chediak, Bloomberg
Los Angeles Times
The new era of big batteries has already drawn scrutiny after fiery electric-car crashes across America and Europe. Now, U.S. city planners are worried about the same risk of hard-to-control blazes as these power-storage units make their way into basements and onto rooftops.
"You can have these things go on fire, and then hours or days later, they can reignite," presenting a new challenge for first responders, said Paul Rogers, who led New York City's effort to establish battery safety standards until he retired as a lieutenant with the fire department this year. Firefighters - "if they act inappropriately - they could get killed," he said.
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| Alpine Fire (UK) Lands Private Investment |
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Alpine Fire Engineers
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5/15/18
Rochdale Online
Littleborough-based Alpine Fire Engineers has received an investment boost from private equity fund Core Capital Partners.
The backing from Core Capital will enable Alpine to accelerate its expansion plans. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Alpine is a designer, project manager, service and maintenance provider of active fire suppression systems, such as sprinkler systems.
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Fire Monitoring (Canada) Acquires Bulldog
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5/2/18
By Spencer Ives
Security Systems News
ST. CATHARINES, Ontario -- Fire Monitoring of Canada, a full-service company based here, recently announced that it purchased Bulldog Fire and Security, based out of Kitchener, Ontario.
"The majority of what we do is in the commercial space. ...When we look for acquisitions, we look for something that fits the model of what we do in terms of our customer base and culture and synergies," FMC vice president Kevin Allison told Security Systems News, adding that Bulldog fit all of those criteria. "We're excited to work with all of the people at Bulldog."
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Healey FP Lands Kidde FM200 Contract
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4/21/18
Midland Daily News
Critical records in the Midland County Clerk's office will have upgraded protection after the Midland County Board of Commissioners recently approved the purchase of a fire suppression system.
The board approved spending $14,850 with Healy Fire to purchase the FM-200 Kidde Fire Systems. The halon fire suppression system will be installed in the vault at the clerk's office in the Midland County Services Building.
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| Has Climate Change Run Its Course? |
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Illustration: David Gothard
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6/4/18
By Steven F. Hayward
The Wall Street Journal
Climate change is over. No, I'm not saying the climate will not change in the future, or that human influence on the climate is negligible. I mean simply that climate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue. All that remains is boilerplate rhetoric from the political class, frivolous nuisance lawsuits, and bureaucratic mandates on behalf of special-interest renewable-energy rent seekers.
Judged by deeds rather than words, most national governments are backing away from forced-marched decarbonization. You can date the arc of climate change as a policy priority from 1988, when highly publicized congressional hearings first elevated the issue, to 2018. President Trump's ostentatious withdrawal from the Paris Agreement merely ratified a trend long becoming evident.
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| Corrosion Protection in Dry Pipe Systems |
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5/21/18
By Gregory Havel
Fire Engineering
Corrosion in automatic fire sprinkler systems is a concern to those who design, install, and maintain these systems. The black, foul-smelling water that is sometimes discharged from sprinkler systems during flushing and flow testing is the result of corrosion of the steel by oxygenated water.
This corrosion can be a general surface corrosion which is active only when fresh oxygenated water is introduced into the system and remains until the oxygen in the water is depleted. It may also be localized, forming pits in the steel sprinkler piping that are covered by heavy deposits of iron oxide and other minerals inside the pipe. The pits will eventually cause leaks. The mineral deposits will restrict water flow during system tests and when sprinkler heads are fused from heat or fire.
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Choosing the Correct Clean Agent Suppression System
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5/15/18
By Eric W. Forssell, PE; Scott Hill, PE; and Bernard Kramer, JENSEN HUGHES
Consulting-Specifying Engineer
Clean agent fire suppression systems are used to protect facilities with high value per volume. They work on a total flooding concept, causing quick extinguishment of a detected fire, limiting damage to the protected space and its contents.
They work on a total flooding concept (filling the entire protected space) and, consequently, their cost is directly proportional to the volume of the space to be protected. Typical spaces protected with clean agent systems include data processing facilities, telecommunications facilities, art-storage facilities, and other high-value buildings.
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Johnson Controls Introduces 70 Bar Sapphire Clean Agent System
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 5/21/18
Creamer Media's Engineering News
Clean agent fire suppression systems are used to protect facilities with high value per volume. They work on a total flooding concept, causing quick extinguishment of a detected fire, limiting damage to the protected space and its contents.
They work on a total flooding concept (filling the entire protected space) and, consequently, their cost is directly proportional to the volume of the space to be protected. Typical spaces protected with clean agent systems include data processing facilities, telecommunications facilities, art-storage facilities, and other high-value buildings.
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| Is Crushed Glass Extinguishing Agent Solution to Lithium Ion Battery Fires? |
5/11/18
MDM Publishing Ltd
International Fire Protection
Extover® is a new, environmentally friendly extinguishing agent which can be used for extinguishing purposes and preventive fire protection. The small, lightweight spheres consist of foamed post-consumer recycled glass with tiny pores inside which form a closed cell structure. The granules are 100% mineral and therefore non-combustible. It does not cause firefighting-related water damage and it is reusable. The granules were tested by the Material Testing Institute of Dresden (MPA). Even problematic fire loads such as lithium battery fires or metal fires can be easily controlled and extinguished with Extover®.
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Boeing 747s Back in Demand
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5/16/18
By Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg
MSN
A funny thing happened to an older generation of Boeing Co. 747 jumbo jets on their way to dusty oblivion in desert parking lots.
Instead of being scrapped, the humpbacked planes are back in demand as workhorses of global shipping. Booming trade is stoking the need for big, long-range jets to haul time-sensitive goods, from Apple Inc. iPhones made in China to fresh flowers grown in Latin America.
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