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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.