Re: Every fire ext. in plant condemmed

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about undocumented foreign fire extinguishers coming in across our open
borders, will the be covered as well?




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**Crash Gordon**

"Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| 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
|
|
| 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
| > previous service company
| >
| >