| Are you aware that you can lose all your personal | | | | heat, fuel, and oxygen. |
| belongings | | | | If you take any one of them away, a fire will |
| in a single fire?It's very sad when fire strikes | | | | not occur. It is called |
| your home. You lose everything. | | | | the "Fire Triangle".The Fire Triangle principle is |
| You do not have a chance to save many | | | | used in all fire prevention and fire |
| belongings. You will be | | | | fighting measures. It is very simple. Remove any |
| considered lucky if you escape with your life.A | | | | one of the three, |
| person's home is a very private piece of his or | | | | and you will not have a fire. Put all of them |
| her existence. | | | | together and you will |
| People have been known to struggle for their | | | | have a fire or even an explosion. An explosion is |
| entire life just to | | | | just a rapid burning |
| accumulate sufficient material riches and built | | | | of a fire.The three components of a Fire Triangle |
| comfortable | | | | are heat, fuel and oxygen. The |
| shelters for themselves. We can experience a | | | | components can appear in many forms and it |
| tremendous sense of | | | | important for those of us |
| loss if our homes have been razed to the ground | | | | who want to adopt fire prevention measures to |
| by a fire.Fires know no bounds. We hear so much | | | | look carefully.Sometimes, people do not realize |
| of this happening in the | | | | that all the three are present until |
| news. Small children and aged persons getting | | | | it becomes too late. For example, a tiny electrical |
| trapped inside | | | | spark that can |
| while a house is on fire. We see live footage on | | | | become a source of heat often cannot be seen |
| television | | | | at all. Sometimes, even |
| showing people jumping out from 3-storey | | | | when the three conditions are present, the |
| buildings and getting | | | | energy of the heat may not |
| injured. We see the terror in their eyes as they | | | | be sufficient to cause a fire.As with all accidents, |
| make a desperate | | | | when nothing terrible happens, people tend to |
| effort to avoid being burnt alive.We come across | | | | get careless. Why worry? It did not happen the |
| stories of people being suffocated by the thick | | | | last time, it will not |
| smoke from a fire.Death, injury and material loss | | | | happen now. What they do not realize is that |
| is the result of fires in homes. | | | | sometimes there is not |
| It is a matter for everyone to take | | | | sufficient heat to vaporize the fuel.And fuel does |
| seriously.Yes, the home is as safe as you make it | | | | not have to be petrol or kerosene. A piece of |
| to be - if you take steps | | | | wood is |
| to prevent fires from occurring in the first | | | | combustible when it becomes heated enough. |
| place.Fire can also be a friend or a foe to mankind. | | | | Cloth and paper are also |
| Fires have been | | | | fuels for a fire. The plastic chair in your dining |
| used for keeping warm, for cooking, for lighting, | | | | room can be a fuel. |
| and so on. If | | | | In fact all organic materials can burn if it is hot |
| it were not for the discovery and utilization of | | | | enough.Oxygen is always present in our |
| fire, mankind | | | | atmosphere. In fact we thrive on the |
| will have a very hard time surviving in the cold | | | | oxygen in the air to live. Oxygen occupies about |
| reaches of the | | | | 21 percent by volume |
| Earth. Our early ancestors used fires to ward | | | | in air, the rest being nitrogen. So in normal |
| away wild animals.Food tastes better when | | | | conditions, this part of |
| cooked or warmed up on a fire. Farmers | | | | the Fire Triangle will always be present and is |
| clearing fields of weeds have also used fire. Many | | | | very difficult to avoid |
| scientific | | | | having when we plan our fire prevention |
| discoveries are obtained by using the heat from | | | | measures in our homes. It will |
| fires.Internal combustion engines, steam boilers, | | | | be more relevant when we want to stop a fire |
| make use of | | | | that has already started. |
| engineering principles of combustion. Engineers | | | | In this case, one of the ways to break the Fire |
| and scientists | | | | Triangle is to remove |
| have studied how to harness the heat from fires | | | | oxygen. There are ways to do this, one of them |
| for energy | | | | is by blanketing or |
| generation.Fire is a true friend if you know how | | | | smoldering.However, in our planning for fire |
| to use it well. The benefits | | | | prevention, we can look at ways of |
| to mankind are many. Sometimes we forget | | | | reducing the chances of oxygen rich atmosphere |
| that it can also be very | | | | forming anywhere around |
| dangerous.There is a saying, "It takes a tree to | | | | the fuel and the heat. This has been known to |
| produce one million matches, | | | | start fires rapidly.Everybody knows that heating |
| but it takes a match to destroy a million trees". | | | | can cause fires. However, we must not be |
| That's the power | | | | unduly alarmed if there are sources of heat |
| of a fire. It can also destroy tremendously. It can | | | | around us. We simply cannot |
| go out of | | | | avoid the heat. In fact we use heating for our |
| control. Efforts must be made to tame it.There | | | | own benefit. Simply put, |
| should not be any doubt in the minds of people. | | | | we must treat heat and fire with respect. We |
| Fire is a boon | | | | should also study the |
| to mankind. But it needs to be controlled well in | | | | mechanism of a fire.The Mechanism of Starting a |
| order to use it.People who makes use of fire, | | | | FireIf you put the flame of a lighted match under |
| (that includes all of us), must know | | | | a piece of wood, you can |
| the nature of a fire, and how a fire can start. It | | | | be sure that most of the time the wood will not |
| is a fundamental | | | | catch fire. Even if |
| rule to understand what we are dealing with.In | | | | you dip a lighted cigarette into a pan of lubrication |
| order for us to use fire properly, we should know | | | | oil, it is very |
| something | | | | unlikely that the pan of oil will catch fire.So how |
| about how a fire can occur. People who have a | | | | does a fire actually start?To answer this question, |
| natural fear of fire | | | | we must know how a fuel burns. A piece of |
| usually do not know much about fires. If they | | | | wood |
| know how a fire can | | | | can be considered a fuel. The carpet fabric on |
| start, they will not fear it as much, but rather | | | | the floor of your house |
| treat it with | | | | is also a fuel. But why does some fuel burn so |
| respect. The more you find out about fires, the | | | | easily while others do |
| better you will be | | | | not? How does a fuel burn?Taking a piece of |
| at preventing it from going out of hand.Starting a | | | | wood as an example, below is the sequence of |
| FireHow a fire can start?In order for a fire to | | | | events |
| start, three conditions must be met, and they | | | | that happen when a fire occurs. |
| must be present together. The conditions are | | | | |