By Parvez Shaikh
Many lives have been lost in fires at places of recreation and entertainment. A previous contribution to this series of periodicals dealt with fires in many countries at many places and in that many people were killed.
As we see in recent news, you can see uncovering the cause of a tragic barn fire that killed nearly 30 thoroughbred racehorses in Charles Town, West Virginia, on Labor Day, Monday, September 6th, 2010 is proving far more difficult than expected. A massive fire broke out in an old multi-storied building on the busy Park street area in Kolkata on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, injuring several people and leaving scores trapped. Four people were killed in the fire. As many as 300 firemen and 40 fire tenders were fighting the blaze in Stephen Court that originated from one of the lifts between the fifth and sixth floors of the building, Fire Services Minister Pratim Chatterjee and fire brigade sources said. An electrical fault is suspected to have caused the fire.
When there is burning there is inability to exit, death canny result from one of two factors: smoke inhalation and flashover. Flashover is of course the sudden transition from a small, localized fire to one involving the entire enclosure in which the fire began. It involving a huge increase in the heat release rate and in fire engineering times to flashover can be correlated with evacuation times.
Pan Gulf fire protection services will not be compromised; fire engines and firefighters will get to incidents "as they always have done." A successful 30 year campaign by the fire service to install smoke alarms has led to a sharp fall.
As we see in recent news, you can see uncovering the cause of a tragic barn fire that killed nearly 30 thoroughbred racehorses in Charles Town, West Virginia, on Labor Day, Monday, September 6th, 2010 is proving far more difficult than expected. A massive fire broke out in an old multi-storied building on the busy Park street area in Kolkata on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, injuring several people and leaving scores trapped. Four people were killed in the fire. As many as 300 firemen and 40 fire tenders were fighting the blaze in Stephen Court that originated from one of the lifts between the fifth and sixth floors of the building, Fire Services Minister Pratim Chatterjee and fire brigade sources said. An electrical fault is suspected to have caused the fire.
When there is burning there is inability to exit, death canny result from one of two factors: smoke inhalation and flashover. Flashover is of course the sudden transition from a small, localized fire to one involving the entire enclosure in which the fire began. It involving a huge increase in the heat release rate and in fire engineering times to flashover can be correlated with evacuation times.
Pan Gulf fire protection services will not be compromised; fire engines and firefighters will get to incidents "as they always have done." A successful 30 year campaign by the fire service to install smoke alarms has led to a sharp fall.
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