Section 27-437. Fire protection


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  • Heliports shall be provided with fire-foam
      extinguishing equipment and fire alarm facilities meeting the  following
      requirements:
        (a)  At  least  two  hose  stations  housing  approved foam generating
      equipment shall be provided remote from each other and located  adjacent
      to  outlets  of  the  building standpipe system or other source of water
      supply. Hoses shall be provided with nozzles and related  equipment  for
      dispensing foam to all portions of the roof.
        (b)  The  building  standpipe  system  or other source of water supply
      shall  be  capable  at  all  times  of  providing   two   hose   streams
      simultaneously,  each  of  which will afford foam application at a total
      water rate of at least sixty gallons per minute at a nozzle  presure  of
      seventy-five psi for a period of ten minutes.
        (c)  A  fire  alarm  system  meeting  the installation requirements of
      subchapter seventeen of this chapter shall be  provided  with  a  direct
      connection to the central station of an operating fire alarm company and
      with a local alarm to all heliport personnel.