Fire department connection to a building's sprinkler system
Day 11
It helps the water get a running start
January 10th, 2012
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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I assumed sprinklers were already tapped into a system with a lot of water pressure behind it, and they could work independently of the fire department arriving. But apparently that’s not always the case and the fire department often has to, what, route water from fire hydrants through the stand pipes?
Sprinkler systems are always pressurized. These pipes should be the drains for the system.
Actully these are the stand pipes. Fire Pumps in the building get the sprinkler system running right away on activation. These are hook ups for fire trucks and serve as a secondary water source.