The Park Service said the project would involve updating the statue's mechanical and electrical systems, along with its fire-suppression equipment.
Malden did install new fire-suppression equipment and trained workers in evacuation plans.
A spokesman for New York Waterway, Pat Smith of Rubenstein Associates, said that since the fire, the company has put remote fire detection and suppression equipment in the engine rooms of its 40 ferries, and moved the battery that runs the radio from the engine room, which experts say is the most likely spot for a fire, to the pilothouse.
After a DC-9 operated by ValuJet crashed in the Everglades in May 1996 because of a fire in the cargo area, the F.A.A. doubted that the obvious fix — the installation of fire detection and suppression equipment — would pass muster with the White House because the cost might exceed the benefit.
For the purposes of this article, the costs and benefits of using new technology focused on the fire suppression cost component, e.g. equipment cost and use, and the respective opportunity costs.
As the average fire suppression activities (e.g. salaries, machinery & equipment usage) as per Wu et al. (2009) cost $1796 per fire, the following potential dollar savings were identified; Scenario 2 25 % RPA use 7%%, Scenario 3 50 % RPA use 23%%, and Scenario 4 100 % RPA use 31%%.
Water mist fire suppression systems are proposed to suppress kitchen fires.
Water spray-based fire extinguishing equipment such as sprinklers has been widely used in fire suppression and control.
The company installs its own equipment, while the building operator supplies such services as security, air-conditioning and fire suppression.
During fire suppression, they work at near maximal heart rates [ 13] while wearing about 50 pounds of protective equipment, sometimes for prolonged periods [ 15, 16].
