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HOSPITALITY SERVICES


        POLICY ON EMERGENCIES


        Fire                                                     FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
        In case of fire accidents, fumes, and theft, individuals   There may be up to three different types of fire
        should call University Police at Ext. 83300 or 911       extinguishers in your kitchen:
        immediately. When a fire is discovered, the building
        must be evacuated. If it is safe to do so, all doors to
        the fire area should be closed and the nearest wall       1.  MULTIPURPOSE EXTINGUISHER (ABC):
        mounted fire alarm activated. When the fire alarm            This type of extinguisher will extinguish all types
        rings, the building must be evacuated as quickly as         of fires: “A” Class (wood, paper, etc.), “B” Class
        possible but elevators must not be used. Doors and          (flammable liquids, oils, gasoline), “C” Class
        windows in the area should be closed. The building          (electrical fires).
        must not be re-entered until authorization to do so       2.  BC EXTINGUISHER:
        has been given by the Fire Department or UWO Police.
                                                                     This type of extinguisher works extremely well on
        All cooking appliances should be turned off and food        grease fires, and can be used on any flammable
        that could catch fire should be removed from its heat       liquid fires involving electricity.
        source (eg. French fries should be removed from the       3.  RANGE GUARD FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM:
        deep fryer).                                                 This fire extinguishing system is located in the

                                                                    exhaust ducts and hoods over certain cooking
        If the fire is under a kitchen hood, activate the fire      appliances. It will operate automatically if there
        extinguishing system using a manual “Range Guard”           is a fire on a cooking appliance, or manually if the
        pull station. You must also pull the nearest fire alarm     pin in a Range Guard pull station is pulled. This
        pull station to sound the building alarm system.            system, when activated, will shut off all fuel sources
                                                                    to the appliances under the hood, discharge the
                                                                    extinguishing agent on to the appliances and into
                                                                    the hood, and will ring a local alarm bell. A fire
                                                                    alarm pull station must also be pulled to sound the
                                                                    building alarm system.











































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