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According to Reardon, assistant sexton Gabe Paccio discovered the fire when he saw black smoke at the ceiling of the church and noticed flooding caused by the attic's sprinkler system. Paccio then shut down the electricity system and attempted to shut off the church's two sprinkler systems...
Construction crews are replacing the existingsix-inch line with a 12-inch line. The extracapacity is necessary, Hawkes said, in partbecause new sprinkler systems installed thissummer will increase the flow of water to thedorms. The iron pipes are also prone to chemicalreactions underground, and tend to build up crustover time, Hawkes said...
...spared. Blasts of wind carried branches through the air. Football practice was abandoned when a 10 foot strip of board fence came hurtling through the air toward C and D teams and the wooden grandstands retreated nine feet. A chimney fell off Harvard Hall and started the automatic sprinkler which in turn set off the fire alarms and drew three fire engines...
...during the tournament to exactly three-sixteenths of an inch by lawn-mower blades with the precision of Ginsu knives and then groomed with a metal comb by a greenkeeper. The dependable sogginess that keeps British courts so lush is helped along here by a state- of-the-art sprinkler and drainage system percolating at 32 in. an hour. The boundaries and hoops are rotated so that no spot of grass gets worn down, creating undesirable breaks...
...supply. But once FX-10 is in place on suburban lawns, the slow growth rate will offer several advantages to homeowners. They can skimp on fertilizer and will have to mow the grass no more than twice a month. And they may be able to throw away the sprinkler...