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SAFETY DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT
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After The Fire Has Been Extinguished:
− Squelch the fire monitoring system by briefly pressing the squelch
button on the flybridge. The light will remain illuminated until the heat
detectors reset themselves.
− Use the fire system manual override switch to allow switching on the
blowers, generator, and main engines.
− Ventilate the engineroom to remove any unburned FE-241.
− Have the proper type of hand-held fire extinguishers ready before you
cautiously open the engineroom access hatches.
− Carefully examine the engineroom for damage and determine the
cause of the fire.
− Make the necessary emergency repairs, making certain that none of
the seawater cooling intake hoses for the main engines are burned
through.
− If your vessel was built to RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) standards,
or is over 67 feet long, you must manually reopen the air intake
shutters located on the intake plenums outboard of each engine.
− Start the engines.
− Turn on only those electrical circuits necessary to maneuver your
vessel safely.
− If you have alerted the Coast Guard, inform them that the fire has
been extinguished and you are able to get underway under your own
power. Contact them again when you are safely secured at your
destination.
− Continue to the nearest port.
− Have the fixed fire extinguisher system and any hand-held fire
extinguishers serviced as soon as possible.
NOTICES
Depending on the rate of rise in temperature, the time between the fire
monitor system alarm and the fixed system discharge may be too short
to be acted upon as separate events. Automatic discharge of the fire
system cannot be defeated. It will always discharge at its designed
discharge temperature.
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DANGER
Before activating the fire-fighting system, make sure nobody is inside
the engine room. Once checked that the fire is totally extinguished,
before entering the room, ventilate it for a long time by opening the
hatches, and remove any powder deposits carefully.
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WARNING
Do not open the engine room access hatch, until the fire is completely
extinguished.
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CAUTION
Do not open the engineroom access hatch, or try to enter the
engineroom, for at least 15 minutes after the fire agent has discharged.
This would allow oxygen to enter the engineroom before hot metals
and/or fuels cool, which might cause re-ignition and flashback.
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