Sentence examples for emergency shut off from inspiring English sources

Activists from the environmental campaign group began using emergency shut off switches to stop petrol going to pumps.

Hundreds of residents were evacuated yesterday from a 23-story building in Lower Manhattan after rainwater flooded the basement garage and forced emergency crews to shut off power, the Fire Department said.

Mr. Parack said the D.O.T. thinks the island's fire system and the emergency valves that shut off the flow of gas to the pumps upon a major impact had worked properly and that the fuel involved in the fire came from the car.

Efforts to close an emergency shut-off valve have failed.

In November 2009, OSHA cited the company's Palatine facility for safety violations including missing guardrails, unsafe ladders and the lack of emergency shut-off mechanisms for conveyor belts.

They will be required to have sensors to help them avoid collisions with humans; to be made from soft and light materials to minimise harm if a collision does occur; and to have an emergency shut-off button.

"We are projecting that we could have the conditions ripe for an emergency shut-off once or twice a year," Ms. Donovan said, "covering about 18,000 to 22,000 people at a time".

My family had one when I was young, but if anyone bumped into it and triggered its sensitive emergency shut-off mechanism, we would spend a half-hour battling the stench of kerosene fumes by opening doors and windows to the freezing wind.

Therefore, emergency shut-off decision is vital and earthquake damage estimation can be effectively used for a more reliable and swift decision-making.

Brazil and other countries require a special emergency shut-off mechanism on their offshore rigs.

The United States would push the emergency shut-off button to disarmament in a heartbeat.