Fire and Smoke detection on the Forecourt of an unmanned Petrol Filling Station

[Tom Sutton]

How do you best to provide Fire and Smoke detection on the Forecourt of an unmanned Petrol Filling Station to allow for remote alarming CCTV viewing etc.

[jayjay]

Using a video smoke and fire detction system will also provide the security video. These systems have been arounf for some time now and are effective in warning of a fire in its early stages.

[AnthonyB]

I've not seen any - the one's I know of have a manual alarm station for customers to use to cut the pumps and call the fire service and some CCTV - any detection element would probably be using video detection via the CCTV.

The US has a penchant for total flood dry powder systems fixed to the canopy and these use thermal probe detectors for auto operation:

http://www.pyrochem.com/pdfs/attendant/PC2002038.pdf