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The most important point to make about firefighters' service elevators is that they are not fireproof, totally safe devices. They are affected exactly the same way by fire or water in the shaft as any other elevator. All you can rely on the firefighters' service switch to do is to remove the elevato...

The most important point to make about firefighters' service elevators is that they are not fireproof, totally safe devices. They are affected exactly the same way by fire or water in the shaft as any other elevator. All you can rely on the firefighters' service switch to do is to remove the elevator from any possible civilian use by canceling any signals received from the elevator call buttons on the upper floors. Freight or service elevators don't make good firefighters' service elevators, since they usually serve every floor in the building. If possible, we want to select an elevator that does not serve the fire floor. In addition, a large number of serious fires start in accumulated rubbish in freight elevator lobbies.