Ruhrpumpen´s Spotlight: January 2025
Quality and on-time delivery are two metrics we worked hard last year to improve our customer experience and satisfaction. We are pleased to announce the delivery of a diesel fire water pump with its jockey pump, all on a skid and in an enclosure. Our 18D-410-3 Stage vertical pump: VS1, vertically suspended, single casing, discharge through column/diffuser UL listed & FM approved pump; has 3 stages, 18” cast iron bowls, 304SS impeller material, bronze bowl bearing material, and carbon steel bolting material.
A 12” discharge head with a cast iron nozzle head has a flanged high-pressure column in carbon steel (ASTM A53). Line shaft material is 400 Stainless Steel and includes two hardened bearing journals under the shaft sleeves. Our diesel engine (T3 emission level) model JW6H-UFADF0 offers 327HP @1760 rpm includes a 300-GAL diesel fuel tank, UL-142, dual wall has an NPT lockable fuel cap, screened tank vent, fuel gauge NPT, NPT lockable drain valve, fuel fill pipe and NPT lockable fuel valve.
Protecting the lives, property, and assets of our clients worldwide is our main objective. We offer code compliant, performance based, and creative solutions that are practical and cost effective to our customers. Don't forget to visit this link to find more information about our Fire Pumps & Systems: Fire Pumps and Systems for Firefighting Applications - RP Systems
December 2024
The holiday season arrives every year and with it comes an increase in home fires. We want to share with you some statistics that are relevant to consider during this season.
Winter Holiday Fire Facts
- U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 835 home structure fires per year that began with decorations, excluding Christmas trees. These fires caused an annual average of 3 civilian fire deaths, 30 civilian fire injuries and $14 million in direct property damage.
- Electrical distribution or lighting equipment was involved in more than two in five (41%) home Christmas tree fires.
- Nearly one of every five (20%) Christmas tree fires were started by lamps or bulbs. Eleven percent were started by candles.
- Roughly two of every five (40%) home Christmas tree fires started in the living room.
- Candle fires peak in December and January with 11 percent of candle fires in each of these months.
- Thanksgiving is the peak day for home cooking fires, followed by Christmas Day and Christmas Eve.
- Year round, one-third (32%) of home decoration fires were started by candles. This jumped to almost half in December when candles started 46% of such fires. Cooking started one-fifth (20%) of decoration fires.
Source: NFPA's Applied Research.
Christmas tree & decoration fires
Carefully decorating your home can help make your holidays safer. Between 2018-2022, US fire departments responded to an average of 155 home fires that started with Christmas trees per year. US fire departments responded to an estimated average of 835 home structure fires per year that began with decorations, excluding Christmas trees.
Christmas tree disposal
As Christmas trees dry out, they become more and more flammable. Thirty-six percent of Christmas tree fires were in January. Although Christmas tree fires are not common, they can grow very fast.
Holiday cooking
In 2022, the three leading dates for home structure fires caused by cooking were: Thanksgiving, Christmas day and Christmas Eve. That's why it's important to know what you can do to help keep your friends and family safe while entertaining for the holidays.
At Ruhrpumpen, we care about your safety. We hope you enjoy these holidays in the safest way possible surrounded by your friends and family. We also want to thank you for your continued support and for being an invaluable part of the Ruhrpumpen family.
Warmest wishes from all of us at Ruhrpumpen.
December 2024
FIRMS US/Canada is a joint effort by NASA and the USDA FOREST SERVICE to provide access to low latency satellite imagery and science data products from Earth Observation System (EOS) EARTH OBSERVATION satellite assets to identify the location, extent and intensity of wildfire activity and its effects.
FIRMS US/Canada tools and applications provide geospatial data, products and services to support strategic fire management needs of US and Canadian agencies and inform the general public.
- Active fire detections, satellite imagery and other relevant data for the US and Canada in an interactive FIRE MAP
- Active fire data in downloadable SHP, KML, TXT formats and Web Map Services
- Satellite imagery accessible from Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) and as custom subsets from Worldview Snapshots
- Email/text Fire Alerts for new fire detections within defined areas of interest
- Fire Data Academy features examples of analyzing and visualizing fire data using Google Colaboratory (Colab), Jupyter Notebooks, and Python.
FIRMS US/Canada is enabled by data and applications provided by NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), including NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EO (LANCE), as well as data from the direct readout community and technologies facilitated by the NASA Direct Readout Laboratory.
The USFS, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is responsible for overseeing 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands for an impressive total of 193 million acres. The history of federal forest management goes back as far as 1876, when Congress recognized the need for oversight of the quality and conditions of forests throughout the country, creating the office of Special Agent in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
This foresight has evolved into our modern day United States Forest Service whose mission continues to be firmly rooted in sustaining the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.
Relevant Fire Projects from December 2024
We specialize in delivering pre-packaged firefighting systems mounted on a common skid, designed for seamless plug-and-play installation. Our solutions combine top-tier quality, swift lead times, and innovative features, ensuring compliance with the strictest oil and gas industry standards and facility requirements worldwide.
This pre-packaged skid includes 1x diesel engine firepump, 1x electric motor firepump, 2x jockey pumps. 1 Ruhrpumpen ETL/C-ETL Listed engineered package electric driven fire pump system, consisting of 1000 GPM @190 PSI. A dual wall tank, piping guard with cross bracing and containment piping and UL Listed fuel hoses. Seismic calculations, anchor clips, and grounding pads are included. All structural welders are AWS certified and all pipe welding was done by ASME Code 9 Section 9 certified welders.
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Thanksgiving Fire Statistics
Thanksgiving is the peak day for home cooking fires with more than three times the daily average for such incidents. Christmas Day and Christmas Eve ranked second and third, with both having nearly twice the daily average.
Unattended cooking was by far the leading contributing factor in cooking fires and fire deaths. Cooking causes half (52%) of all reported home fires and nearly two of every five (36%) home fire injuries, and it is a leading cause of home fire deaths (17%). On Thanksgiving day alone, an estimated 1,610 home cooking fires were reported to U.S fire departments in 2022, reflecting a 399 percent increase over the daily average.
Top Safety Tips
- Stay in the kitchen when you are cooking on the stove top so you can keep an eye on the food.
- Stay in the home when cooking your turkey, and check on it frequently.
- Keep children away from the stove. The stove will be hot and kids should stay three feet away.
- Make sure kids stay away from hot food and liquids. The steam or splash from vegetables, gravy or coffee could cause serious burns.
- Keep knives out of the reach of children.
- Be sure electric cords from an electric knife, coffee maker, plate warmer or mixer are not dangling off the counter within easy reach of a child.
- Keep matches and utility lighters out of the reach of children — up high in a locked cabinet.
- Never leave children alone in room with a lit candle.
- Keep the floor clear so you don’t trip over kids, toys, pocketbooks or bags.
- Make sure your smoke alarms are working. Test them by pushing the test button.
Candles which are another popular element in holiday decorations can also be a fire hazard. NFPA reports that during 2012-2016, U.S. fire departments responded each year to around 8,200 home fires started by candles. Annually, the fires caused an average of 80 deaths, 770 injuries, and $264 million in direct property damage. In addition to keeping candles away from decorations and other flammable materials—and never leaving them unattended—NFPA has a list of other Winter Holiday Safety tips.
November 2024
The town of Fredericktown, Missouri, facility where the fire occurred is “one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery processing facilities.” The 225,000-square-foot structure and a partially caved-in roof can be seen in the photo. Officials have not yet said what might have caused the fire or what fire protection systems were in place. But the company that operates the plant where the fire occurred, says on its website that the facility contained one of the “most sophisticated automated and remote supervised and controlled fire suppression systems in the world.”
Although the facility appears to have sustained significant damage in the blaze, there have been no reports of any deaths or injuries from the event.
Lithium-ion battery fires happen for a variety of reasons, such as physical damage from force, electrical damage from overcharging, exposure to extreme temperatures, and manufacturer defects. More specifically, lithium-ion battery fires often involve a chemical process known as thermal runaway, in which the battery essentially continuously overheats and over-pressurizes and is prone to fires, off-gassing, and sometimes explosions.
Recycling lithium-ion batteries is a complex and inherently risky process, explains NFPA® Senior Technical Services Engineer Brian O’Connor. Several factors contribute to this, including:
•Batteries arriving at facilities damaged.
•Stranded energy (residual energy).
•The recycling process involves shredding.
O’Connor says there are several steps facilities and workers can take to help them stay safer while carrying out this dangerous work.
“First and foremost,” he says, “always follow the applicable fire and life safety codes.” NFPA codes and standards such as NFPA 1, Fire Code; NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code®; NFPA 13, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems; and others could apply to the types of industrial occupancies where battery recycling might take place.