Fire/Smoke Detection on a Petrol Filling Station (external)

[Guest SimonDa]

Am trying to understand how best to provide Fire and Smoke detection on the Forecourt of an unmanned Petrol Filling Station to allow for remote alarming CCTV viewing etc.

[Tom Sutton]

A possibility would be a video smoke and fire detection system which will also provide security video. These systems have been around for some time and are effective in warning of a fire in its early stages but will be expensive.

They are not common and most use a manual alarm station for customers to use, to cut the pumps and call the fire service including CCTV - any detection element would probably be using video detection via the CCTV.

[Guest Mark]

I was on a petrol filling station owned by tesco.it had no fire alarm panel and no call points etc .it did have the emergency pumps shutdown switch etc.

How can this be correct

[Tom Sutton]

If the petrol filling station was small why would they need a fire alarm, a verbally warning most probably would be sufficient, I suspect your corner shop doesn't have a fire alarm. A rule of thumb would be no fire alarm give a verbal warning, manual fire alarm and then electric fire alarm, depending on how complicated the building is.

[green-foam]

Most petrol filling stations do not have a fire alarm, there is no point.  Fire alarms are to give automatic warning that there is a fire, most (Not all) petrol station kiosks are so small if there was a fire, it would be easy to give a verbal warning as Tom suggests