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Contact:
Kenneth Clair
Fire Inspector and Safety Coordination Officer
Kenny
Address:
1 Main Street
Brewster, NY 10509
Phone:
(845) 279-5698
Hours:
Monday-Friday
900x430
 
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Alarm Permit
Important Safety Reminders:

New York State requires a yearly inspection to all public use and hazardous occupancies.

Commercial properties are required to have their alarm and sprinkler systems checked every six months.

Do you have a fire or burglar alarm system in your house?
All alarm systems require a permit that are issued and maintained by this office.

As of January 2003, all commercial buildings are required to have a Knox Box.
A Knox Box secures your premises keys for the Fire Department use ONLY. It eliminates the needless, costly forced entry damage to your doors. It allows immediate entry without delay or waiting for a key holder. Knox Boxes are available only through the Fire Inspector's Office.

Other inspections performed are: fireplaces, gas installations, new boilers and replacements, HVAC systems, tank removals and installations.

All required permits must be obtained at the Building Department Offices, 67 Main Street, Brewster, New York.

Fire Extinguishers
Are your Fire Extinguishers current?
Every home should have at least one.
Commercial buildings are required to have two or more and are required to have yearly inspection.

911
If you called 911 - would emergency services be able to find your house or building?
YOUR HOUSE OR BUILDING MUST BE NUMBERED AS WELL AS THE DRIVEWAY TO YOUR HOME. A MINIMUM 3 INCH NUMBERS.
IT'S THE LAW!

Remember:
Check your Smoke and CO Detector at least once a year!
Carbon Monoxide Warning and Information https://www.carbonmonoxidekills.com/ , https://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/coftsht.html 
Carbon Monoxide is a colourless, odorless, tasteless, toxic gas that has the molecular formula CO. The molecule consists of a carbon atom that is triply bonded to an oxygen atom.
Carbon Monoxide is produced by the incomplete combustion of the fossil fuels - gas, oil, coal and wood used in boilers, engines, oil burners, gas fires, water heaters, solid fuel appliances and open fires.
Carbon Monoxide is a commercially important chemical. It is also formed in many chemical reactions and in the thermal or incomplete decomposition of many organic materials.
Dangerous amounts of CO can accumulate when, as a result of poor installation, poor maintenance or failure or damage to an appliance in service, the fuel is not burned properly, or when rooms are poorly ventilated and the Carbon Monoxide is unable to escape.
Having no smell, taste or colour, in today's world of improved insulation and double glazing, it has become increasingly important to have good ventilation, maintain all appliances regularly and to have absolutely reliable Detector alarms installed giving both a visual and audible warning immediately there is a build-up of CO to dangerous levels.
NO SMELL and NO TASTE and NO COLOUR
And, it is for these reasons that CO Detectors are the only way to alert you to increasingly dangerous levels of CO before tragedy strikes.
What are the effects of Carbon Monoxide?
Carbon Monoxide produces the following physiological effects on people exposed to the concentrations shown:

        Concentration of CO in ai
        Inhalation time and toxic develope
        50 parts per million (ppm
        Safety level as specified by the Health and Safety Executiv
        200 PPM
        Slight headache within 2-3 hour
        400 PPM
        Frontal headache within 1-2 hours, becoming widespread in 3 hour
        800 PPM
        Dizziness, nausea, convulsions within 45 minutes, insensible in 2 hour
        

Carbon Monoxide poisons by entering the lungs via the normal breathing mechanism and displacing oxygen from the bloodstream. Interruption of the normal supply of oxygen puts at risk the functions of the heart, brain and other vital functions of the body.
The above information is for a healthy adult. Persons suffering from heart or respiratory health problems, infants and small children, unborn children, expectant mothers and pets can be affected by CO poisoning more quickly than others in the household and may be the first to show symptoms.




 
Town Hall: 1360 Route 22, Brewster, NY 10509
Phone: 845-279-4313  Fax: 845-278-2453
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