Wasn't there one a while back where a woman set her hair on fire lighting a cigarette on a gas stove and the sprinkler overhead put the fire out?
At 11:48 PM 3/9/2009, you wrote: >I reviewed a fire similar to this in 1996 in Auckland, where an occupant of >a resthome set fire to his clothes while smoking and using oxygen. >Apparently the oxygen regulator was leaking. The fire occurred in the early >hours of the morning. He was back in a new room later that day, after being >treated for minor burns in a hospital. The sprinklers were standard >response - if I remember correctly, 11mm bulbs. > >Later that year, a similar event occurred in another resthome in New >Zealand. One of the few lives reported to have been lost in this country >from fire in sprinklered buildings. In the first case, I think it could be >safely said that the sprinkler system exceeded expectations. > >At the thought of smoking while using oxygen, I recall at the time thinking >that I was glad that I gave up smoking some 5 years earlier. > >Regards > > > > >Chris Mak >Sprinkler Certification Manager >Aon New Zealand >Level 1, 4 Fred Thomas Drive, >PO Box33-1240, Takapuna > > >DDI: +64 9 486 9761 | Mobile:027 434 4058 | Fax:+64 9 486 0112 > > > > > "Scott A. > Futrell" > <[email protected] To > > <[email protected]> > Sent by: cc > sprinklerforum-bo > un...@firesprinkl Subject > er.org sprinkler save > > > 10/03/2009 03:54 > p.m. > > > Please respond to > sprinklerfo...@fi > resprinkler.org > > > > > > > > >Not your everyday sprinkler save if all is true in the attached story > >http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fire-sabol-firefighters-2329243-cloth >es-residents > > > > > >Scott A. Futrell > > > >_______________________________________________ >Sprinklerforum mailing list >http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum >For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > >To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] >(Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > >This document should only be read by those persons to whom it is >addressed and is not intended to be relied upon by any person >without subsequent written confirmation of its contents. >Accordingly, our company disclaim all responsibility and accept no >liability (including in negligence) for the consequences for any >person acting, or refraining from acting, on such information prior >to the receipt by those persons of subsequent written confirmation. > >If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us >immediately by telephone. Please also destroy and delete the message >from your computer. The Unsolicited Electronic Message Act 2007 (The >Spam Act) came into effect from 5 September 2007. As a valued client >you may receive communications from us from time to time, including >electronic publications, invitations and related information. Please >advise if you wish us to stop sending these communications to you. >Otherwise we will assume you wish to continue receiving these >communications from us. > >Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, >modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message >is strictly prohibited. > >_______________________________________________ >Sprinklerforum mailing list >http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum >For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > >To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] >(Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut www.fpdc.com 860.535.2080 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
