Fire Prevention and Protection

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When there's a fire.

if you stand under it, believe it or not, you will get sprayed less.

...or just run. :)

Without fuel the fire will go out.

The answer depends upon what fire code applies. There are places where fire sprinklers are not required in one- or two-family buildings at all, where amended national fire codes have been enacted locally.

The fuel (oil, gasoline, etc) is typically trapped in an absorbent material or lying on a surface that is preventing it from burning (by sinking away heat).

Petroleum products have lower densities than water, i.e. they float on top of water. When you add water, it soaks down into the materials present, which causes the fuel to float to the surface. The high temperature causes the water to boil and project bits of fuel and water droplets into the air. If it's hot enough, this will cause the fire to blaze up; otherwise it usually just spreads the fire around.

Hence, fires caused by petroleum products are extinguished by solid or gas fire suppressants (sand, foam ect.) as it forms a layer over the petroleum product on fire, thereby, cutting out the oxygen supply needed for it to continue to burn.

Water is an extinguisher of a burning flame.

Answer: FUEL: Like us, fires die without food. Firemen exploit this principle in forest and brush fires when they create a firebreak in the path of the main fire. In a kitchen setting, eliminating the fuel may simply mean turning off the gas. In other settings, however, eliminating the fuel may be difficult if not impossible.

OXYGEN: Once again, like us, a fire must breathe. Toss a shovelful of dirt or a fire blanket over a fire, and you smother it. The oxygen level, incidentally, need not go down to zero for a fire to suffocate. If you reduce the oxygen level from the normal 21 percent in the air around us to 15 percent, many substances-flammable liquids, for example, and even some solids-will no longer burn.

No, under the definitions in the NFPA Life Safety Code, a "means of egress" includes an exit access, an exit and an an exit discharge.

In that sense, "exit access" is everything an occupant must pass through on the way to an "exit", where an "exit" is a door to a safe place, either a fire door into another fire partition, a door outside, a fire door to a smokeproof stairwell, or a fire door into an "exit" comprised of a protected horizontal passageway.

In other words, you use an "exit access" to get TO an exit, and you use an exit to get to an exit discharge (which reaches a public way).

Examples of exit access would include any distance through an unprotected space on the way to an exit, whether it's across an open warehouse floor, across theater seats and down an aisle, or going down an unprotected stairway. Since those areas are not fire-resistant, they are "exit access".

NFPA refers to the National Fire Prevention Association, headquartered in Braintree, Massachusetts, USA.

They maintain a huge website at NFPA.org.

Fuel, Oxygen and a spark to ignite the flame. Use the Fire triangle.

If you remove fuel, oxygen, or both from a fire, the fire goes out.

The fire is burning underground in the peat or other materials.

Lot line requirements for in-ground sprinklers typically depend on local zoning regulations and building codes, which can vary by municipality. Generally, it's advisable to install sprinkler systems at least 2 to 3 feet away from property lines to prevent water runoff onto neighboring properties and to allow for maintenance access. Homeowners should also consult with their neighbors and possibly obtain permits to ensure compliance with any specific local ordinances. Checking with a local landscaping or irrigation professional can provide additional guidance tailored to your area.

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NFPA codes and standards are selected, enacted or amended and enforced by each individual authority having jurisdiction.

There are several other alternatives, including International Codes and locally created codes that could be adopted and enforced in lieu of any NFPA codes.

Another element of NFPA enforcement often involves local insurance needs established by the underwriters.

In a situation where you are within a structure that is on fire and you cannot flee to a safer location, you would want to keep windows in the closed position. Opening windows will bring in an air flow in which the fire will flow towards. If there is not oxygen for a fire, it will help to decrease the fire because it is taking away a source of fuel.

He was credited for improving the fire extinguisher in 1872, about 150 years after it had been invented in England.

What he actually invented was a type of fire standpipe and sprinkler in which water pressure from a reservoir and pump pushes water up and into a building to a valve that can be opened to make the water spray out of nozzles. That is nothing like what we call a "portable fire extinguisher" today.

US Patent 125,063, issued March 26, 1872 to Thomas J. Martin [sic], of Dowagiac, Cass County, Michigan.

To learn further about any fire protction classes offered by the county, please contact the fire department. You can contact the Fire Delartment at their non-emergency number at (706)-782-2336.

Note that to phone number listed will go to the Fire Department located in the Town or Tiger (Rabun County), Georgia.

You should refrain from putting electric heaters near combustible materials because heat emitted from the heater is capable of causing the combustible material to blow up or catch fire.

Yes, you can, but is strongly not recommended. Plastic smokes heavily when burned, releasing toxins. Different plastics release different toxins. Breathing the smoke of a plastic fire is dangerous as well due to the oily soot that is in the smoke.

Do not burn plastic in a campfire.

Fires that have caught in manufacturing facilities plastics are particularly difficult for firefighters to extinguish. The smoke that many plastics release when burned can be flammable as well.