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Show 6 - THANKFUL TIMES - NOVEMBER 1993 How a Fire Grows Many people who die in fires failed to take steps to protect themselves because they did not know how quickly fire spreads. The setting: A two story frame house. The fire begins in the living room. An ashtray with cigarette butts still smoldering is dumped into a wastebasket next to the couch. On one side of the living room is the kitchen. The door is closed. On the other side of the living room is the dining room, the front hallway, and the stairway—the only direct exit from the second floor. Upstairs is the master bedroom, a guest room which is directly above the living room, and a child’s bedroom. All of the bedroom doors are closed. wastebasket. 2:8 Contents of wastebasket are smoldering. Second story windows begin to break. Flames from fire begin to climb the outside of house. Fire moves quickly. When firefighters arrive, they may not be able to rescue anyone left inside the house. Fire rolls across ceilings 7:3 Wastebasket is in flames. From First Flames (minutes and seconds): 0:30 First flames ignite the couch. 1:04 Fire spreads to area rug and smoke fills the room. 1:23 Stairway exit still clear. Fire continues to accelerate. 1:35 Smoke in living room builds until it finds openin s to rise through. Smoke an heat continue to rise throughout house, including up the stairway. Reaching stairs, flames quickly spread to upstairs. Less than five minutes from first flames to fully involved fire. Time between $0unding of smoke alarm—possibly the first warning of fire—and time when smoke blocks rapidly, begins to climb and off the upstairs hallway is only spread across ceiling. Room temperature is now 190°. ninety seconds. up stairway. 1:50 Smoke detector’s alarm sounds. 2:30 Above living room couch, temperature is now 400°. 2:48 Smoke pours into dining room. Smoke is about 4 feet off floor. Using stairway as escape route is now impossible. Temperature in living room is 500°. 3:20 Black, thick smoke fills upstairs hallway. Outside the home, fire is still not visible. Alternate escape route, through windows or onto roof, is only way out. 3:41 Intensity of fire ignites everything in living room. Temperature exceeds 1000°. Living room windows break. Toxic smoke and gases fill house. 6 4“ ‘9W 0 WW 1:47 Light smoke begins to move THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE ENCOURAG ES YOU to install and maintain smoke detectors, have an escape plan in case of a fire in your home, practice your escape plan often, and KNOW TWO WAYS OUT!!! You may want to post this sheet for future reference. LtttfitAAAgxta Start Your Family Tradition This Year PLANT A LIVING CHRISTMAS TREE Pines SI Spruce—1, 2, 5 gallon sizes 4-7 Ft balled Blue Spruce . '1‘ 1";731 ’ CACTUS BABIES MAKE GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS—$143 (Get one free with Christmas Tree purchase.) Castle Canyon Nursery 1. £1A259-8274 it 1 i SHOP EARLY— Nusery will be closed last two weeks of December (13 Dec—31 Dec) A‘Attt tAAitt t WW\ The time frame (minutes and seconds): 0:0 The ashtray is dumped into the |
