Summary And Location Of The Fire Fighting Equipment

• fire hose reels
• fire blankets
• fire extinguishers

The exact location of these devices is shown in the maps.

Fire blankets are available in the vicinity of all high risk rooms. They are marked with this sign. On the maps their location is indicated with the symbol   .

  Fire extinguishers have been assigned historically to those rooms with increased need for fire fighting capacity. 
To obtain more transparency regarding the location of the fire extinguishers - both for users and the controlling organism -, the extinguishers were grouped into so-called fire extinguisher pools. This picture shows one such pool.

The majority of the fire extinguishers is placed well in sight in the corrir nneto te enrance doors to the rooms. Different types are marked with the symbols  , or on the maps

Every floor with the exception of the basement contains four primary extinguisher pools, located at the extremities of the main corridors, close to the fire doors. Every pool is equipped with two CO₂ and one powder extinguisher.   They are marked with the symbol on the maps.
Two more CO₂ extinguishers are placed in every central fire hose reel cabinet.   The symbol  is used on the maps. As these devices are out of sight, their location is marked with this sign:

  or 

This holds also for the powder extinguishers in the fire hose reel cabinets next to the elevators in the main hall. These are marked with the symbol on the maps.

In addition, selected high risk rooms, such as storage areas for chemicals, didactical labs or rooms used intensively for synthesis purposes, are provided with extra fire extinguishers.

Familiarize yourself with this new line-up and verify whether your room is equipped with its own extinguisher.

Also please notice the drastic reduction in powder extinguishers. It is recommended to use CO₂ extinguishers whenever possible in light of the tedious and expensive clean-up procedures for fire extinguisher powder. Powder extinguishers should be used only when CO₂ is not an option, as e.g. in case of the Cyanide Room.

These devices are distributed over the different floors as follows:

These maps can be viewed in a high resolution version in Microsoft Powerpoint. Click here:

Last revision: February 20, 2004