You should never put gas into a gas can when it is sitting in the trunk of a car or bed of a truck you should take the can be it plastic or metal and place it on the ground to eliminate the potential of the gas igniting from static electric.
So I ask the question?
Is it safe to fuel pleasure boats sitting on steel trailers in a gas station
I see this practice many times during the summer because it is much cheaper to fuel your inboard boat at a gas station than at the gas pump at the Marina.
But this same deadly static could just as easily happen because you have a non grounded gas tank on a Fiberglas boat sitting on a steel trailer.
The other problem you now have a boat full of gas being transported and posibly being involved in an accident before it gets put into the water .
I have gone thru numerous Fie codes and while filling portable containers is in codes there is nothing which addresses fueling a pleasure boat on a trailer. It appears NFPA and UL and Fire officials are asleep at the switch on this one . Probably because they do not realize such fueling is going on.
Particularly here in Western Pa where we have one of the highest number of registered pleasure boats in the country and largest inland Port with 3 rivers converging.
Yes there have been cases of Gas stations exploding in this area when people improperly fueled and I am worried it is just a matter of time till one of these boats being fueled some time 2 or more at a time at a gas station goes off like a bomb.
It time to look at this issue investigate it and take appropriate actions before some one gets seriously injured or killed all because some one wants to save some money.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Unthinkable in today's Fire Prevention World but City's and Towns had an Unsupervised circuit to fire panels up till 1980s
A look back into the history of fire reporting systems
It was called a Candella Circuit and it was very unique when it came to monitoring fire alarms basically it was a board with lights that lighted up when a contact on Fire Panel closed and it was used well into late 1980's by the City of Pittsburgh as well as other city's and towns . There was no supervision and you had no idea if wiring was even working until you did monthly building test.
Pittsburgh put the Candella Circuits in place when it got rid of the old Gamewell Master Box system which was supervised and would work despite multiple wire breaks on the circuit how ever it was expensive to maintain a private wiring system in the city where Bell Telephone maintained and charged for using the Candella System It worked well and many fire alarm systems back then where not fully suervised like they are today .
The city would replace the Candella with a fully supervised technology called Derived Channel System in late 80's which sent special sub audible tones back and forth over phone lines you could not hear to do the supervision. Bell Telephone called it REACT System
But it only lasted a few years again due to the high cost of maintaining it and poor quality of phone lines in many areas at the time and was turned over to Guardian Protection who eventually abandoned it.
Finally Fire Alarms where allowed to report in via Digital Dialer which used POT or Plain old Telephone Lines which at first there where only 3UL Listed central stations permitted to send signals to city which was Honeywell, ADT and Guardian Protection . But then the city of Pittsburgh finally allowed all centrals to receive and send signals to them in early 90's. All in All it was a learning curve for Fire Officials as technology and codes are constantly changing and facing the massive amount of Fire and Burglar Alarms the city has they did a good job administering them. Bottom line they kept Pittsburgh Citizens safe
Amazingly even thou the Candella system was unsupervised there where No incidents where it did not work that I know of because Bell Telephone Employees did an excellent Job in maintaining and checking the lines . Which where marked with special red caps anywhere they terminated.Unlike today where Verizon is trying to get out of hardwired or POTS phone lines
Of course today there are many ways to send in Fire Alarm signals from Digital Dialer's over POTS to Cellular and Internet Communicators and even Private 2 way radio
It was called a Candella Circuit and it was very unique when it came to monitoring fire alarms basically it was a board with lights that lighted up when a contact on Fire Panel closed and it was used well into late 1980's by the City of Pittsburgh as well as other city's and towns . There was no supervision and you had no idea if wiring was even working until you did monthly building test.
The city would replace the Candella with a fully supervised technology called Derived Channel System in late 80's which sent special sub audible tones back and forth over phone lines you could not hear to do the supervision. Bell Telephone called it REACT System
But it only lasted a few years again due to the high cost of maintaining it and poor quality of phone lines in many areas at the time and was turned over to Guardian Protection who eventually abandoned it.
Finally Fire Alarms where allowed to report in via Digital Dialer which used POT or Plain old Telephone Lines which at first there where only 3UL Listed central stations permitted to send signals to city which was Honeywell, ADT and Guardian Protection . But then the city of Pittsburgh finally allowed all centrals to receive and send signals to them in early 90's. All in All it was a learning curve for Fire Officials as technology and codes are constantly changing and facing the massive amount of Fire and Burglar Alarms the city has they did a good job administering them. Bottom line they kept Pittsburgh Citizens safe
Amazingly even thou the Candella system was unsupervised there where No incidents where it did not work that I know of because Bell Telephone Employees did an excellent Job in maintaining and checking the lines . Which where marked with special red caps anywhere they terminated.Unlike today where Verizon is trying to get out of hardwired or POTS phone lines
Of course today there are many ways to send in Fire Alarm signals from Digital Dialer's over POTS to Cellular and Internet Communicators and even Private 2 way radio
Saturday, May 21, 2016
BEWARE MICROSOFT IS DELIBERATELY PUTTING LIVES AT RISK BY FORCING WINDOWS 10 DOWNLOADS ON WIN 7 AND 8.1 COMPUTERS
If you own old windows 7,and 8.1 etc computers Microsoft is deliberately and misleadingly loading windows 10 onto your machine when you leave it on and unattended. and encouaging you to update from 8 to 8.1 then they force win 10 on you
I recently had it happen to me and it was a real pain getting my machine rolled back to windows 7
It starts with all those little memo windows popping up telling you about win 10 but this week what is happening is a window pops up and asks when do you want to schedule your update if you dismiss it next thing you know it says thank you and when it will update your machine . If you did not catch that fast little dialog yes you wake up and find Windows 7 has been installed on your machine. or it will happen right while you are in the middle of doing something important on your machine like doing payroll or editing audio and video etc.
THE RESULTS CAN BE TERRIFYING
RADIO STATIONS ON REMOTE CONTROL HAVE HAD ISSUES AND HAD AUDIO STREAMS SHUT DOWN IN MIDDLE OF NIGHT AND NO EMERGENCY BROADCAST ALERTS CAN BE SENT . It happened to radio station chain I provide contract engineering services to.
SURVEILLANCE CAMERA SYSTEMS CAN NOT BE ACCESSED
RESTAURANTS AND RETAILERS RUNNING POS POINT OF SALE SOFTWARE ALL OF A SUDDEN CAN NO LONGER USE THE SOFTWARE
FIRE DEPTS CAN NOT PAGE OUT PERSONNEL AND SEND THEM INFO WHERE TO RESPOND TO
TIME CLOCKS CAN NOT BE ACCESSED AND DOOR ACCESS AND GATES CAN NOT BE CONTROLLED OR OVERRIDDEN
The problem older software programs which have not had there drivers updated to work with Windows 10.
There is a reason why people have not been updating and Microsoft knows full well the lives they are putting at risk and damage they are causing I have filed a report and complaint with US Justice dept and Pa States attorney general over it. Microsoft knows many company's wait several months before updating computers and software to make sure all bugs have been worked out and in some cases company's have gone out of business and there will never be updates thats why you are keeping those old windows 98 , XP etc running Why are they shoving it on us.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO STOP IT?
Luckily a company called Gibson Research has released a small program which can stop the update and take files out. the program can be found at following link.
You can also remove from windows update the following update number KB3035583
Why is Microsoft doing this its because they want to spy on your activity's and then collect the data and sell it which is none of their FU###G Business.
There needs to be a massive class action suit against Microsoft for all the damage and cost they have caused people and I will be one of the first to gladly sign up for it. after the week of hell myself and my customers have gone thru there is no excuse for what Microsoft has done .
I recently had it happen to me and it was a real pain getting my machine rolled back to windows 7
It starts with all those little memo windows popping up telling you about win 10 but this week what is happening is a window pops up and asks when do you want to schedule your update if you dismiss it next thing you know it says thank you and when it will update your machine . If you did not catch that fast little dialog yes you wake up and find Windows 7 has been installed on your machine. or it will happen right while you are in the middle of doing something important on your machine like doing payroll or editing audio and video etc.
THE RESULTS CAN BE TERRIFYING
RADIO STATIONS ON REMOTE CONTROL HAVE HAD ISSUES AND HAD AUDIO STREAMS SHUT DOWN IN MIDDLE OF NIGHT AND NO EMERGENCY BROADCAST ALERTS CAN BE SENT . It happened to radio station chain I provide contract engineering services to.
SURVEILLANCE CAMERA SYSTEMS CAN NOT BE ACCESSED
RESTAURANTS AND RETAILERS RUNNING POS POINT OF SALE SOFTWARE ALL OF A SUDDEN CAN NO LONGER USE THE SOFTWARE
FIRE DEPTS CAN NOT PAGE OUT PERSONNEL AND SEND THEM INFO WHERE TO RESPOND TO
TIME CLOCKS CAN NOT BE ACCESSED AND DOOR ACCESS AND GATES CAN NOT BE CONTROLLED OR OVERRIDDEN
The problem older software programs which have not had there drivers updated to work with Windows 10.
There is a reason why people have not been updating and Microsoft knows full well the lives they are putting at risk and damage they are causing I have filed a report and complaint with US Justice dept and Pa States attorney general over it. Microsoft knows many company's wait several months before updating computers and software to make sure all bugs have been worked out and in some cases company's have gone out of business and there will never be updates thats why you are keeping those old windows 98 , XP etc running Why are they shoving it on us.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO STOP IT?
Luckily a company called Gibson Research has released a small program which can stop the update and take files out. the program can be found at following link.
You can also remove from windows update the following update number KB3035583
There needs to be a massive class action suit against Microsoft for all the damage and cost they have caused people and I will be one of the first to gladly sign up for it. after the week of hell myself and my customers have gone thru there is no excuse for what Microsoft has done .
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