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National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
Number of terms: 98780
Number of blossaries: 0
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A vehicle having a cargo tank (tank truck, tank full trailer, tank semitrailer) designed for or used in the transportation and transfer of fuel into or from an aircraft.
Industry:Fire safety
A vehicle equipped with facilities to transfer fuel between a fuel hydrant and an aircraft.
Industry:Fire safety
A vehicle equipped with an aerial ladder, elevating platform, or water tower that is designed and equipped to support fire fighting and rescue operations by positioning personnel, handling materials, providing continuous egress, or discharging water at positions elevated from the ground.
Industry:Fire safety
A vehicle designed with the primary purpose of enabling access to an aircraft interior.
Industry:Fire safety
A vehicle designed to be used on other than paved or improved roads, especially in areas where no roads, poor roads, and steep grades exist and where natural hazards, such as rocks, stumps, and logs, protrude from the ground.
Industry:Fire safety
A vehicle designed primarily for transporting (pickup, transporting, and delivering) water to fire emergency scenes to be applied by other vehicles or pumping equipment.
Industry:Fire safety
A vehicle designed for flight that is powered by liquid petroleum fuel.
Industry:Fire safety
A vehicle consisting of a towing vehicle and one or more towed units.
Industry:Fire safety
A vehicle and/or power unit running on rails used to carry passengers and crew.
Industry:Fire safety
A vault that is supported from the ground up and that is structurally independent of the building in which it is located.
Industry:Fire safety