Electrical cabinets are generally vented for cooling but sometimes are built dust tight with gaskets on doors and no vented panels.
Fire alarm system in electrical room.
Typically a fire alarm system is made up of the following components.
Initiating devices capable of placing the system in the alarm state.
You can also install nonplenum rated fire alarm cables above a suspended ceiling or below a raised floor used for environmental air but only if you install the cable within electrical metallic tubing or one of the other raceways identified in 300 22 c 1.
The electrical equipment inside these cabinets are the main source for fires and a fire will need to be quite developed before enough heat and smoke escape the enclosure to alarm detection.
Fire alarm system is the combination of different components such as smoke detector heat detector carbon monoxide detector multi sensor detector call points sounders bells relay module repeater annunciator fire control panel and other related and optional security devices designed for fire alarm control system.
24 4 2 8 5 4 where the separation of in building fire emergency voice alarm control equipment locations results in the portions of the system controlled by one location being dependent upon the control equipment in other locations the circuits between the dependent controls shall be protected against attack by fire by the protection provided.