Risks Involved & Consequences
The fire risks involved in this application are related to electrical faults due to the prevalence of electrical equipment within the station. Coupled with human error, a reliable and efficient firefighting system to safeguard its wooden structure and the vastly expensive sensitive scientific equipment was required. Importantly, different material/fuel may combust so the fire the extinguishing system had to be effective for A, B, C, F, classes of fire and rapidly responsive to avoid further damage to assets or danger to human lives.