Fire Extinguisher Locations 14-0

Marty Huie
Marty Huie
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Published 2012-11-18
Fire extinguishers and their locations. The matter how you look at this is going to cost someone money. Fire extinguishers are required to be inspected monthly, documented for both local and federal agencies depending on the type of building our occupancy you have. Healthcare for instance with all the regulations they need to follow, fire extinguishers on average cost $500-$800 per year just for inspections. So an architect or engineer placing too many fire extinguishers in the building can easily cost the owner quite a bit more money. At a facility I reviewed a few years ago we counted between 15 and 25 more fire extinguishers per floor them they needed. They had five floors that is about 125 more fire extinguishers than required assuming the minimum amount of dollars for inspection, $500, this equates to about $62,000 per year for inspections only a fire extinguisher is not required or needed. This is an ongoing cost, so in 10 years this is easily $620,000 that could have been spent better for our healthcare facilities. Take time to analyze every fire extinguisher removed those that are not needed or required. This all needs to be documented with your local AHJ. This can be done at any time you discover you have too many. But the whole floor or area should be analyzed as a whole.These videos are to understand building code
All Comments (9)
  • @MartyHuie
    Fire extinguishers should be placed at the proper distance apart only. It's not up to the architect to decide to place more fire if the architect is concerned the architect should bring it up with the client and let them decide because it's going to be a yearly cost for inspecting and maintaining them. If you're really concerned about saving the building advise your client to have your building fully sprinkle. Fire extinguishers require training and most people truly do not know how to operate one appropriately
  • @longliu8994
    These video are really useful for me,thanks a lot.It would be much better if the video had subtitles.It's very useful and helpful for those outlander who want to learn the US code to understand.
  • @slaveofjesus3878
    Are we allowed to account for walking up or down stairs within that 75' travel path? Or, is it that each floor is evaluated separately? Would the absence of any fire separation, or fire doors make the difference? If occupancy class changes from one floor to the next, I'd expect that to be the case anyhow.
  • @obumnemefidel1043
    Please is it proper to place fire extinguishers too close to burners in the kitchen? Or could affect the fire chemicals
  • @thanhcongTDT
    Hi, What is in the walkable Celing, we do not have FIRE Extinguisher up there, is this violating the Code
  • @Tashi-tect
    Where can the code be located? NFPA 101? IBC? having trouble finding it...