fire-extinguishing system

“Why did your fire-extinguishing system not work and the ship burned practically from the inside out?”

You’ve protected your house in Malibu with a sophisticated fire-extinguishing system.

D. In all highly cultured quarters, the almost entirely voluntary fire-extinguishing system, in which the people turned out in a body to battle with the flames, made way for the fire-militia system; and if the latter should make place for what we may designate as a standing fire-army which is most easily attained in connection with the fire-insurance system, we should reach the ideal of such a system, especially if the business of insurance was in the hands of the state or of the municipality.

A 2008 accident at the Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine killed 20 Russian seamen and injured 21 others when its fire-extinguishing system activated in error and spewed suffocating Freon gas.

For example, the fire-extinguishing system includes ventilation dampers on the air plenums that close automatically when the system is actuated.