scope:

This Standard covers the use, installation, and maintenance of fire door assembiles, glass blocks and shutters for the protection of openings in walls to restricts the spread of fire and smoke within building whether from interior fire or from external fire, including arrangements for automatic operation in case of fire. It is not intended to establish the degree of protection required or to constitute the approval of any product.

Incinerator doors, record room doors and vault doors are not covered in this Standard. For their installation, see Standard on Incinerators and Rubbish Handling (NFPA 82, see Appendix D); Standard for the Protection of Records (NFPA 232, see Appendix D) ; and Standard for Fur Storage, Fumigation and Cleaning (NFPA 81, see Appendix D).

For standards on the installation of hoistway doors for elevators and dumbwaiters, see Safety Code for Elevator, Dumbwaiters, Escalators, and Moving Walks (ANSI A17.1, see Appendix D), Section 110.