(A) The location of the Fire Department connections shall be approved by the Fire Chief, Fire Marshal or their designee, with respect to fire hydrants, Fire Department access roads, fire apparatus water supply lines, buildings, utilities and landscaping.
(B) Access to Fire Department connections shall be maintained at all times and not hindered by obstructions including fences, bushes, trees, walls or other fixed or removable objects.
(1) Fire Department connections shall be free standing and remote from the building.
(2) The connection shall be a five-inch Stortz type connection.
(3) The Fire Department connection shall be located to the curb cut of the main entrance of the project site or building it serves. The connection shall be arranged to face the street, driveway or fire access route. This location shall be placed in an area that will not interfere with access to the building when hoses are laid from the closest fire hydrant to the Fire Department connection. It shall also be located a distance of one and one-half the total height of the building away from building.
(4) The Fire Department connection shall be located not more than 100 feet from the nearest fire hydrant.
(5) The Stortz connection shall be arranged so that the connection is between 30 and 36 inches above the finished grade, sidewalk or pit box top or lid at the location of the connection.
(6) Where the Fire Department connection is subject to vehicular damage, the connection shall be protected in accordance with the current requirements of the state’s Fire Code.
(7) The exposed exterior piping for the Fire Department connection shall be painted red if it supplies a sprinkler system only, yellow if it supplies a combination sprinkler/standpipe system and green if it supplies a standpipe system only. The address for the building shall be on the riser of the Fire Department connection. The Stortz connection shall not be painted.
(8) The Fire Department connection shall not be more than 25 feet from the curb.
(9) Security caps: when a building is protected by an automatic sprinkler and/or standpipe system and the Fire Department connection is exposed to undue vandalism, the Fire Chief or the Fire Marshal may require that a Knox security cap be installed. All new buildings equipped with an automatic sprinkler and/or a standpipe system shall install a Knox locking cap on the Fire Department connection.
(Prior Code, § 38-94) (Ord. 22-01, passed 2-14-2022)