Re: Every fire ext. in plant condemmed

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On Dec 14, 7:21 pm, Jim Rojas <jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Those are either HMO or PPO fire extinguishers. The service provider may
> have denied the request to recharge the extinguishers because of the
> preexisting conditions. In addition: Recharging and inspecting these
> same extinguishers year after year is considered a wasteful and
> unnecessary expense. Furthermore, Recharging any old fire extinguisher
> manufactured prior to 1991 as stated in NFPA72 Section 5, Paragraph 13,
> subparagraph 7, line 6 may be deemed as experimental.
>
> Now if we had a national fire extinguisher healthcare plan, all fire &
> supression extinguishers of any type, regardless of chemical
> composition, or container type would have been covered under the
> proposed NFPA72-HR676.
>
> This proposed plan would cover all fire & supression devices, no matter
> what service provider you currently have. So whether the extinguisher is
> in a high rise office building, in your car or boat, or at the local
> barber shop, it will be covered under this plan.
>
> Jim Rojas

How about the fire extinguisher in my pool? Will I be able to get
coverage even though it tends to rust from the outside?
>
>
>
> Nick Markowitz Jr. wrote:
> > One of my industrial customers had an insurance inspection this week and was
> > advised to get all fire extingquishers in plant inspected after the under
> > writer found most units were 1 year past there inspection.
> > The local guy I refer to my customers spent 3 hrs in plant and called me
> > down to show me 90% of the exstinghuishers had not been hydrotested in over
> > 12 years there were 50's era exstinghuishers still being used and apparently
> > the previous service the plant was using was doing nothing more than
> > changing tags every year.
> > in all 100% of the exstinghuishers had to be condemmed for rust and being
> > obsolete and illegal to use. All the while this other service was comming in
> > and passing everything
> > Needless to say my customer is going to take legal action against the
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