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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 20,1979
Alarm system
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there is the likelihood of dust
being raised by livestock or
exhibitors. Even the spray
disinfectant used to clean up
after shows raises enough
mist to set of the alarms.
Coffman said the smoke
detectors are not an
essential part of the Farm
Show’s fire alarm system.
“They are an added
benefit. The more protection
we can get, the better,” he
said.
His problem at present is
finding how and when the
smoke detector system can
be put to work at Farm
Show.
It has been established
that the system is too sen
sitive to work during any
livestock show. But the
alarms can be switched on
any time the building is
vacant.
The system is set up to
allow certain areas of the
Farm Show building to be
sectioned off so the alarm
system is active only in one
particular area.
“It will have to be a show
by show decision whether or
not to turn the system on. I
have not given up on the
smoke detectors yet,”
Coffman said.
If the system is found to he
impractical for continued
use at the Farm Show, it
would be the Department of
General Services’ respon
sibility to see about
removing the system and
obtaining some refund for
the contract amount. DGSis
the ongmal contractor on
the project
Coffman said he leans
toward using the system
only when it can be used
without the confusion of false
alarms.
He said that while the
system is not totally
suitable, neither is it totally
useless.
But he said so far he does
not feel the system is
completely unpractical for
use at Farm Show. He said
he does not feel the situation
has gone so far as to require
removal of the smoke
alarms
He said he intends to
continue to use the smoke
alarm system as an
auxiliary to the Farm
Show’s entire fire safety
system.
The smoke alarms,
though, are not the only part
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“Some of the things they
did I just couldn’t believe,”
Wellington Smith said.
A prune example of this
was the unhooking of some of
the Farm Show water lines.
The bottom line on that
renovation was a water
shortage at the Farm Show
this past Janury. It effected
only the toilets and some
animal washing at the time.
Smith said he felt he had to
oppose the move, not only
because he felt it was not a
proper thing to do m the light
of public safety but also to
protect himself as Director
of the Farm Show.
Smith said he was tickled
to see DGS put in a sprinkler
system for the complex. But
then the DGS designers
decided to remove the
hydrants at the Complex.
Smith said he objected to
that move because he felt the
Farm Show employees were
the first line of defense
against fires.
There were two major fire
problems at the Farm Show,
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Smith recalled. One was in
the duct system, the other in
a piece of equipment m the
dairy barn. Both were ex
tinguished by Show em
ployees before the
Harrisburg fire department
arrived on the scene.
Smith said a direct alarm
tie to the Harrisburg fire
department can provide
almost instant warning to
fire fighters of a problem.
He maintained that
weather conditions, such as
those which often prevail at
Farm Show time; or traffic
jams which are com
monplace in the Farm Show
vicinity, could delay
firefighters.
“But I was just a minority
voice,” Smith said.
Present Farm Show
Director Coffman em-
phasized the fire detection
and suppression system at
the Farm Show is adequate
and meets state standards.
The fire suppression
system has been functioning
for about a month, he said.
The smoke detectors are
not an esential part of that
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