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At the conclusion of the fire test, to achieve a rating greater than 20 minutes, the glass must pass a mandatory hose stream test during which testing labs spray the glass with water from a two-man fire hose. According to NFPA 257, “the cooling, impact, and erosion effects of the hose stream provide important tests of the integrity of the specimen being evaluated.”
