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    A fire alarm box, fire alarm call box, or fire alarm pull box is a device used for notifying a fire department of a fire or a fire alarm activation. Typically...
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    Manual fire alarm activation is the process of triggering a fire alarm through a call point, pull station, or other device. This usually causes the alarm to...
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    manual fire alarm activation devices (pull stations). All components of a fire alarm system are connected to a fire alarm control panel. Fire alarm control...
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    York City Fire Department reports that 2.6 percent of emergency calls they receive originate from call boxes, 88 percent of which are false alarms. City officials...
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    TARDIS Red telephone box Sentry box Fire alarm call box Royal Mile police box  Telephones portal "Huddersfield's Tardis police box is on the move!". Yorkshire...
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  • alarm activation, a pull station Fire alarm call box, a device used for notifying a fire department Fire alarm notification appliance, an active fire...
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    One-alarm fires, two-alarm fires, three-alarm fires, etc., are categories classifying the seriousness of fires, commonly used in the United States and...
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    Emergency exit (redirect from Fire exit)
    building or other structure is a special exit used during emergencies such as fires. The combined use of regular and emergency exits allows for faster evacuation...
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    transition to a detonation depending upon confinement and other factors. Most fires found in daily life are diffusion flames. Deflagrations with flame speeds...
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  • The fire point, or combustion point, of a fuel is the lowest temperature at which the vapour of that fuel will continue to burn for at least five seconds...
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