Call Our Toll-Free Number: 1300 302 994
Have
you had the experience of witnessing a house on fire? That’s a fearsome event
for those who are watching, isn’t it? The situation would teach us to take
better care of our houses and install fire
resistant doors. Fire when properly used and contained can bring plenty of
positive things for us like cooking and providing warmth on cold days. This is
the reason why fire places are also very important in homes because a fire can
be properly used to make life more comfortable. However, when fire is left to destroy
our possessions, it would be a misfortune for anyone whose house has been
ravaged by fire.
All people dread
fire if they know how destructive it can get and will eat everything that comes
along its way. Fire will always spread when there are combustible materials
that it can catch as it seeks more space to get through. It will make
everything a kindling matter in a few minutes and nothing will be left standing
or stay in their forms once a fire passes it. Even people can be victim to fire
when they cannot escape through a fire exit door.
How
do people die in fires? There will be heavy and dark-coloured smoke when fire
is trying to spread. When there’s clean-burning fire, there will be no smoke
that can be visible. However, a fire that is moving fast in under-ventilated
areas will manifest a large volume of smoke. Fire engineers will know more
about the fire that happens inside a structure through the colour and they can
target their efforts on the areas that has not yet been damaged. Dampening an area
will discourage fire from spreading. However, this may not be effective when
the building has reached a very high temperature.
What
is most fearsome is when a building is under black fire. This fire is composed
of black, very dense and high volume of smoke that also carries a turbulent
velocity and a high level of carbon dioxide content in the smoke is very
likely. This can be a sign for auto-ignition. This fire can signal that the
building is now very risky and that smoke is doing the destruction and not the
flame. At 1,000°F, this fire can now cause steels to melt, materials can get
charred upon coming in contact with this black smoke and people will quickly
die when this smoke reaches them. The black smoke is even more potent than a
fire with visible flame. When this happens, expect that very few materials and
lives can be spared, if they are lucky at all.
Surviving a
structural fire nowadays can be obtained through the installation of a fire exit door. This is a fire barrier
that will control the seepage of smoke to another compartment in the structure
and keep the spread of fire in control. The flames in a fire do not take lives
but the smoke that comes before it. The fire
resistant doors available today are not luxury materials but a protective
measure for structures since it will prevent the rapid spread of fire.
1 comments: