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A NEW FIRE-protection system fires in bus garages has been d consultant Colin Todd.
His system involves fitting heat detectors inside the ceilings of buses. The detector is set to activate a short-range radio transmitter if a fire in the bus starts. The transmitter then sends a signal to the bus garage's automatic fire alarm, which can notify the fire brigade.
There have been at least 12 major fires in bus garages since 1975 and almost all have started in the passenger saloon of parked buses. Arson was suspected or proven to be the cause of the fire in the majority of cases.
One of the problems in combating a fire in a bus parked in a bus garage is that the bus itself becomes a building within a building. The bus body will protect a fire from a garage sprinkler system until the fire breaks out of the bus. By that time it is detected it has often spread to other vehicles and the building structure.
The Todd system will allow the fire brigade to attend and deal with the fire before it breaks out from the vehicle.
The system can also be used to turn on the hazard warning lights of the vehicle to allow the to prevent large-scale losses from esigned by Surrey fire protection source of fire to be identified.
This method of fire detection using radio also works when buses and coaches are parked in the open and can also be adapted to serve as an anti-theft or vandal device for luxury coaches. The system is at present specifically designed for each application and normally costs less than one per cent of the cost of a new vehicle.
The system is being marketed by Intex Executives (UK) Special Products Division, Chancery House, 53/64 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1QU.