being a 3 story building, with the large thick smoke production, could it be that the elevator was hydraulic-driven and it was hydraulic fluid that was burning?
This is very interesting and I am curious for more details. how did smoke fill the third floor if it was smoke originating from the elevator shaft/pit, since elevator recall would have left the cars at the recall floor (presumably grade level), with the shaft doors only open at the recall floor? what was it that burned? how much burned? where did it burn? did the fire burn exclusively in the elevator shaft or outside the shaft as well? any idea as to how it started (incendiary or mechanical failure)? did the elevator lobby smoke detectors recall the the elevators to the prime floor? It looked like a warm, nonwindy day so stack and wind did not play a significant part in the smoke movement. the smoke was obviously thick enough that students chose a 3rd story exterior window ledge over the option of egressing down the corridor to the end stairway. i am guessing the corridor was near pitch black. Elevator fires are very rare. scot deal excelsior fire engineering _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
