Home Fire Prevention Effectiveness 1

Are you aware that you can lose all your personalheat, fuel, and oxygen.
belongingsIf you take any one of them away, a fire will
in a single fire?It's very sad when fire strikesnot 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 manyused in all fire prevention and fire
belongings. You will befighting measures. It is very simple. Remove any
considered lucky if you escape with your life.Aone of the three,
person's home is a very private piece of his orand you will not have a fire. Put all of them
her existence.together and you will
People have been known to struggle for theirhave a fire or even an explosion. An explosion is
entire life just tojust a rapid burning
accumulate sufficient material riches and builtof a fire.The three components of a Fire Triangle
comfortableare heat, fuel and oxygen. The
shelters for themselves. We can experience acomponents can appear in many forms and it
tremendous sense ofimportant for those of us
loss if our homes have been razed to the groundwho want to adopt fire prevention measures to
by a fire.Fires know no bounds. We hear so muchlook carefully.Sometimes, people do not realize
of this happening in thethat all the three are present until
news. Small children and aged persons gettingit becomes too late. For example, a tiny electrical
trapped insidespark that can
while a house is on fire. We see live footage onbecome a source of heat often cannot be seen
televisionat all. Sometimes, even
showing people jumping out from 3-storeywhen the three conditions are present, the
buildings and gettingenergy of the heat may not
injured. We see the terror in their eyes as theybe sufficient to cause a fire.As with all accidents,
make a desperatewhen nothing terrible happens, people tend to
effort to avoid being burnt alive.We come acrossget careless. Why worry? It did not happen the
stories of people being suffocated by the thicklast time, it will not
smoke from a fire.Death, injury and material losshappen 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 takesufficient heat to vaporize the fuel.And fuel does
seriously.Yes, the home is as safe as you make itnot have to be petrol or kerosene. A piece of
to be - if you take stepswood is
to prevent fires from occurring in the firstcombustible when it becomes heated enough.
place.Fire can also be a friend or a foe to mankind.Cloth and paper are also
Fires have beenfuels 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. IfIn fact all organic materials can burn if it is hot
it were not for the discovery and utilization ofenough.Oxygen is always present in our
fire, mankindatmosphere. In fact we thrive on the
will have a very hard time surviving in the coldoxygen in the air to live. Oxygen occupies about
reaches of the21 percent by volume
Earth. Our early ancestors used fires to wardin air, the rest being nitrogen. So in normal
away wild animals.Food tastes better whenconditions, this part of
cooked or warmed up on a fire. Farmersthe Fire Triangle will always be present and is
clearing fields of weeds have also used fire. Manyvery difficult to avoid
scientifichaving when we plan our fire prevention
discoveries are obtained by using the heat frommeasures in our homes. It will
fires.Internal combustion engines, steam boilers,be more relevant when we want to stop a fire
make use ofthat has already started.
engineering principles of combustion. EngineersIn this case, one of the ways to break the Fire
and scientistsTriangle is to remove
have studied how to harness the heat from firesoxygen. There are ways to do this, one of them
for energyis by blanketing or
generation.Fire is a true friend if you know howsmoldering.However, in our planning for fire
to use it well. The benefitsprevention, we can look at ways of
to mankind are many. Sometimes we forgetreducing the chances of oxygen rich atmosphere
that it can also be veryforming anywhere around
dangerous.There is a saying, "It takes a tree tothe 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 powerunduly alarmed if there are sources of heat
of a fire. It can also destroy tremendously. It canaround us. We simply cannot
go out ofavoid the heat. In fact we use heating for our
control. Efforts must be made to tame it.Thereown 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 boonshould also study the
to mankind. But it needs to be controlled well inmechanism 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 knowa piece of wood, you can
the nature of a fire, and how a fire can start. Itbe sure that most of the time the wood will not
is a fundamentalcatch fire. Even if
rule to understand what we are dealing with.Inyou dip a lighted cigarette into a pan of lubrication
order for us to use fire properly, we should knowoil, it is very
somethingunlikely that the pan of oil will catch fire.So how
about how a fire can occur. People who have adoes a fire actually start?To answer this question,
natural fear of firewe must know how a fuel burns. A piece of
usually do not know much about fires. If theywood
know how a fire cancan be considered a fuel. The carpet fabric on
start, they will not fear it as much, but ratherthe floor of your house
treat it withis also a fuel. But why does some fuel burn so
respect. The more you find out about fires, theeasily while others do
better you will benot? How does a fuel burn?Taking a piece of
at preventing it from going out of hand.Starting awood as an example, below is the sequence of
FireHow a fire can start?In order for a fire toevents
start, three conditions must be met, and theythat happen when a fire occurs.
must be present together. The conditions are