{"id":194,"date":"2015-04-21T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darcoinc.com\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2022-09-01T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:32:47","slug":"fire-cisterns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/darcoinc.com\/fire-cisterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Cisterns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fire Cisterns &<\/h1>\n

Firefighting Water<\/h1>\n

Storage Tanks<\/h1>\n

Underground Fire Cisterns<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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FIRE CISTERNS<\/strong> are reliable year-round dedicated water sources for firefighting, often required when there is no central piped water supply in the area.<\/p>\n

Providing a fire cistern or firefighting water storage tank in compliance with the local fire department\u2019s design and storage volume requirements may reduce insurance premiums and create a valuable emergency water resource available to the entire community.<\/p>\n

The NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) has published guidelines regarding the location and volume of an appropriate fire cistern, based on the property or structure it is designed to protect.\u00a0 Please consult with your local Fire Chief about any such project before you start planning for an underground water storage tank.<\/p>\n

There are many different possible layouts; some will require drafting, while others may provide a gravity flow or pumped discharge.\u00a0 Work with your Fire Department to ensure the system will work as planned when needed.\u00a0 Please see the provided illustrations for such systems.<\/p>\n

Fire Departments also often use underground tanks for testing their truck mounted fire pumps.\u00a0 This process is called Annual Testing and ensures the equipment will perform as expected when called upon.\u00a0 The size and layout of a test tank will vary based on the flow rate of the pumps and the number of trucks to be tested, one after another.\u00a0 See the Test Pit illustration for details.\u00a0 Contact Darco for further information on pump test facility designs.\u00a0 Darco manufactures NFPA compliant underground fire cisterns and fire sprinkler reservoirs.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fire Cisterns & Firefighting Water Storage Tanks Underground Fire Cisterns FIRE CISTERNS are reliable year-round dedicated water sources for firefighting, often required when there is no central piped water supply in the area. Providing a fire cistern or firefighting water storage tank in compliance with the local fire department\u2019s design and storage volume requirements may … Continue reading Fire Cisterns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-inner.php","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darcoinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darcoinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darcoinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darcoinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darcoinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/darcoinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/darcoinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darcoinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}