NFPA 75 NITMAM Survey

1. FSSA Installer Members

The NFPA 75 technical committee has proposed to substantially weaken the long standing requirement for automatic fire suppression under raised floors of data centers. At the June 16 NFPA Technical Meeting, FSSA will move to retain the requirement for automatic fire suppression under raised floors of computer rooms in its existing form in NFPA 75. FSSA believes that fire under a raised floor in a data center potentially exposes fire fighters to an unreasonable level of risk – risk which has been largely eliminated by providing automatic fire suppression under the raised floor.

About 7 years ago FSSA conducted a survey of FSSA installer members regarding clean agent fire suppression. The results of the survey have been extremely valuable in developing and maintaining proper guidelines for the use of clean agent systems. We would like to update that survey to support our activity with NFPA as well as our overall leadership in promoting special hazards fire protection.

THE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND NO COMPANY INFORMATION WILL BE IDENTIFIED.

Responses are needed by May 5, 2016.

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* 1. Approximately how many clean agent systems has your company installed since 1994?

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* 2. Of these installations, how many UNSUCCESSFUL extinguishments are you aware of?

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* 3. Details of the UNSUCCESSFUL extinguishments (optional):

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* 4. Of these installations how many SUCCESSFUL extinguishments are you aware of?

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* 5. Of these SUCCESSFUL extinguishments, how many occurred in DATA CENTERS?

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* 6. Of these SUCCESSFUL extinguishments, how many involved fire under a RAISED FLOOR of a Data Center?

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* 7. Details of SUCCESSFUL Extinguishments (optional)

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* 8. COMMENTS (optional)