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Post by Gus65 on Oct 4, 2014 10:22:00 GMT 10
Guys,
Got sick of being angry, never really was but now I log in as just me. Gus65
49yr old (can see 50 from here) fire investigator married with three boys. Living the dream on the Far South Coast of NSW.
Started my BBQ journey with a gas burner and was given a Kmart kettle for Christmas one year. Made some monumental mistakes with that until I found my feet mainly used it for smoking fish. Google took me to ABBQF and I learnt a lot, then this forum kicked off and its just getting better and better.
Got the kids to give me a mini roti for Fathers Day last year and scammed a mini kettle from the paint shop to add to the collection then the family gave me a ProQ for my birthday. BBQ heaven on my back deck now.
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Post by smokey on Oct 4, 2014 11:12:02 GMT 10
Good to have you here Gus. I didn't know we both work at the opposites of the fire industry
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Post by bill44 on Oct 4, 2014 11:31:00 GMT 10
What , one of you lights them and the other one finds out who you are?
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Post by Gus65 on Oct 4, 2014 11:31:29 GMT 10
Been in fire since '83 Started putting them out as a volunteer, then teaching other people how to do it, then doing operational management. Now I work out where and how they started.
You do the fire alarm and monitoring systems don't you?
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Post by smokey on Oct 4, 2014 11:53:41 GMT 10
test, Inspect and certify passive protection systems like fire doors, fire walls, penetration collars, risers etc. Its not a job I get invited to many BBQ's Everywhere I go, the defects I find cost people money
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Post by chrisg on Oct 4, 2014 13:42:07 GMT 10
It my game more a case of a report by an inspector allows me to demonstrate to my customers why they pay what they do to house their computers in my data centers Cheers
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Post by Gus65 on Oct 4, 2014 14:30:39 GMT 10
I know how you feel.
When I turn up someone has either lost everything or is about to cop a heap of strife because they haven't done the right thing.
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Post by chrisg on Oct 4, 2014 14:46:27 GMT 10
Hmm,
I do sometimes wonder just how some places I work in were ever approved in the first place.
I was in a classic a couple of weeks ago, data centers these days are all about being "green," as energy conserving as possible and one very hot subject is lighting. This particular center was a linear set of individually locked suites with separate lighting zones, so if working in a suite distant from the main entry you are in gloom until you get to your area where the lighting is activated by your entry code. I'd hate to be groping my way out to a fire exit if I were the only person there and had to exit in a hurry but I'd probably never find the egress point anyway. They have plenty of floor plans on the walls showing where the exits are but not one of them in the quite large facility has a "you are here" guide arrow...
As it happened they were testing the fire alarms whilst I was there and I pointed this out to the inspector. He'd been doing the regular inspections/tests there for four years but had never picked up on it and was quite embarrassed.
Didn't make me very popular but DCs are not the safest places in the world, better now that they don't use deadly fire suppressants but I've had to evacuate a few over the years.
Funny thing was I've been visiting that center for a couple of years but only picked up on it because this visit I needed to find the gents and from the map had no idea, neither when he looked at it did the inspector...
Cheers
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Post by smokey on Oct 4, 2014 15:54:29 GMT 10
That can be a problem with floor fiitouts. Often egress is not taken into account given what exits the base building has. The Childers back packer tragedy is a case in point. The poor souls were trapped and died huddled together unable to get past the flames to the exit. They died right next to a locked door that opened inwards After that Queensland really put their foot down and probably lead the way in fire safety as a result. But I'm still stymied with all the various building codes, Date of building construction and what codes applied then,,,,,
The inspector is also human, and is why they are done regularly. I pick up critical defects that have been passed for years by some so called inspector every other day.
Then I get the " it passed last year"
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Post by chrisg on Oct 4, 2014 16:04:53 GMT 10
Yeah, and yet there are still DCs all over the world high up in high-rise buildings. I had to build just one, despite my objections, it passed only by having tube slide escapes but it was only four stories up. In Asia I've done reviews of ones 20 and 30 floors up. Always point it out but just get shrugs, life is cheap some places.
Cheers
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Post by 420kev on Oct 6, 2014 11:35:38 GMT 10
thanks gus,
just changed my handle as well,
this one is more...........well........
kevin
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