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USMC Hangers Received Latest in Fire Protection
YUMA, Ariz. - The aircraft hangars at the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma are going high tech.
All nine of the hangars are being renovated with the latest in fire protection technology. It will take several years to complete the project but "this system provides the best possible protection for valuable assets, the structure itself and the people who work there," said Assistant Chief J.C. Summers of the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Fire Department.
Known as a grate nozzle system, it's specifically designed to protect aircraft hangars. The device to discharge a foam-and-water solution is built into trench drains on the floor level of the hangar.
If a fire is detected inside a hangar, the system releases an anti-fire foam mixture from discharge nozzles that will spread out across the hangar floor and suffocate the fire.
"The entire hangar floor is covered in less than 30 seconds. If you have an aircraft inside the hangar and it is leaking, it is going onto the floor," Summers said.
Unlike older fire suppression systems, which were mounted on oscillating turrets that rotated 180 degrees, the new in-floor suppression system does not take up floor space and cannot be easily obstructed, Summers said.
It's also designed to work in tandem with overhead sprinklers already in place inside every aircraft hangar.
Not every hangar will require the same amount of drain trenches and discharge nozzles. It depends on the square footage of each hangar.
The installation of the in-floor suppression systems is one of many renovation projects to prepare for the proposed basing of the Marine Corps' new Joint Strike Fighter jet.
So far, the fire protection system has been installed in three of the air station's hangars _ VMA-513's hangar 95, Search and Rescue's hangar 227 and hangar 220, which is used by visiting aircraft.
Hangar 227 is the latest to have the system installed, with installation completed earlier this month. Hangar 146 will be the next to get the system, with renovation scheduled to begin later this year.
At a combined cost of $3.5 million to have the in-floor system installed in two hangars, officials said it's much cheaper than the cost of replacing a new Joint Strike Fighter if fire broke out inside a hangar with one inside it.
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Information from: The Sun, http://www.yumasun.com
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
All nine of the hangars are being renovated with the latest in fire protection technology. It will take several years to complete the project but "this system provides the best possible protection for valuable assets, the structure itself and the people who work there," said Assistant Chief J.C. Summers of the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Fire Department.
Known as a grate nozzle system, it's specifically designed to protect aircraft hangars. The device to discharge a foam-and-water solution is built into trench drains on the floor level of the hangar.
If a fire is detected inside a hangar, the system releases an anti-fire foam mixture from discharge nozzles that will spread out across the hangar floor and suffocate the fire.
"The entire hangar floor is covered in less than 30 seconds. If you have an aircraft inside the hangar and it is leaking, it is going onto the floor," Summers said.
Unlike older fire suppression systems, which were mounted on oscillating turrets that rotated 180 degrees, the new in-floor suppression system does not take up floor space and cannot be easily obstructed, Summers said.
It's also designed to work in tandem with overhead sprinklers already in place inside every aircraft hangar.
Not every hangar will require the same amount of drain trenches and discharge nozzles. It depends on the square footage of each hangar.
The installation of the in-floor suppression systems is one of many renovation projects to prepare for the proposed basing of the Marine Corps' new Joint Strike Fighter jet.
So far, the fire protection system has been installed in three of the air station's hangars _ VMA-513's hangar 95, Search and Rescue's hangar 227 and hangar 220, which is used by visiting aircraft.
Hangar 227 is the latest to have the system installed, with installation completed earlier this month. Hangar 146 will be the next to get the system, with renovation scheduled to begin later this year.
At a combined cost of $3.5 million to have the in-floor system installed in two hangars, officials said it's much cheaper than the cost of replacing a new Joint Strike Fighter if fire broke out inside a hangar with one inside it.
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Information from: The Sun, http://www.yumasun.com
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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