As a precaution, the building had a dry standpipe, or a pipe that fire crews could hook to their trucks and pump water to crews inside the building, officials said.

But dry stands "are really an essential aspect of a building’s fire protection system. They’re what we rely upon to connect our fire hoses when we’re pumping water into a pipe system.

The city of Glenwood Springs may have spent about $235,000 too much for fire protection and ventilation systems in its new $4 million downtown parking garage at Ninth and Cooper, according to a local ...

Standpipe systems are primarily divided into three classes based on the configuration of the hose stations. A Class I standpipe provides one 1 1/2-inch outlet and is equipped with hose that may be ...

The transit agency estimates about 8 percent of the dry-standpipe systems in the agency’s train tunnels have the flaw. They are mainly clustered in the District, but a few are in Montgomery County.