Safety, Fire & Survival · Fire — Emergency Fire Pump
An emergency fire pump is required to be:
- APowered only from the main switchboard
- BInside the engine room next to the main pump
- CLocated outside the main machinery space with an independent power source, so it works if the engine room is lost to fire✓ Correct
- DUsed only in port
Explanation
The emergency fire pump is sited outside the main machinery space, with its own (independent) prime mover and sea suction, so that a fire disabling the engine room and its main fire pump does not also knock out firefighting water. It must be self-priming or kept primed.
Authority: SOLAS II-2; FSS Code
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