Britain is not doing away with portable fire extinguishers - this is based on a misinterpretation of new fire regs by a couple of fire officers in a county brigade.
Stewart On 15 Apr 2011, at 20:39, å... .... wrote: > one challenge with fire extinguishers is --they don't have a stellar success > rate. > a lot are just small single-shot, if we even got someone available. > Britain is considering doing away with fire extinguishers in some office > buildings, > but that is another issue, and for another root cause that I won't > divert to here; I doubt the issue will be adopted either. > > what happens if there is a fire, and no one is around? > can we tolerate having the fire burn through plastic seals, or wires that > controls dampers, fans, door locks, etc. and thus possibly > lose negative pressurization and disperse room contents with the smoke? > maybe there is simply not enough to burn in the laboratory to begin with, > for instance, are all containers glassware or metal? Are there no ketone > or > alcohol solvents and disinfectants? Are there no incubation, evaporation > or fermentation operations? Does the vivarium contain non-combustible > caging? Maybe too much to consider, but someone (perhaps at a higher > level) > needs to be given notice as to whether release of pathogenic aerosols > because > of insufficient fire protection is a tolerable risk. Included in that > consideration > is the crass realization that a fire in such a facility will not draw the > scrutiny > or publicity that a nuclear accident will, as long as the collateral > damage or kill > is low enough -- or no nexus is made as to the origin of the stuff. > > scot deal > excelsior fire > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.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) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.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)
