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Home Fire Prevention Effectiveness 1

Are you aware that you can lose all yourconditions are heat, fuel, and oxygen.
personal belongingsIf you take any one of them away, a
in a single fire?It's very sad whenfire will not occur. It is called
fire strikes your home. You losethe "Fire Triangle".The Fire Triangle
everything.principle is used in all fire prevention
You do not have a chance to save manyand fire
belongings. You will befighting measures. It is very simple.
considered lucky if you escape withRemove any one of the three,
your life.A person's home is a veryand you will not have a fire. Put all
private piece of his or her existence.of them together and you will
People have been known to struggle forhave a fire or even an explosion. An
their entire life just toexplosion is just a rapid burning
accumulate sufficient material richesof a fire.The three components of a
and built comfortableFire Triangle are heat, fuel and oxygen.
shelters for themselves. We canThe
experience a tremendous sense ofcomponents can appear in many forms and
loss if our homes have been razed toit important for those of us
the ground by a fire.Fires know nowho want to adopt fire prevention
bounds. We hear so much of thismeasures to look carefully.Sometimes,
happening in thepeople do not realize that all the three
news. Small children and aged personsare present until
getting trapped insideit becomes too late. For example, a
while a house is on fire. We see livetiny electrical spark that can
footage on televisionbecome a source of heat often cannot be
showing people jumping out fromseen at all. Sometimes, even
3-storey buildings and gettingwhen the three conditions are present,
injured. We see the terror in theirthe energy of the heat may not
eyes as they make a desperatebe sufficient to cause a fire.As with
effort to avoid being burnt alive.Weall accidents, when nothing terrible
come across stories of people beinghappens, people tend to
suffocated by the thickget careless. Why worry? It did not
smoke from a fire.Death, injury andhappen the last time, it will not
material loss is the result of fires inhappen now. What they do not realize is
homes.that sometimes there is not
It is a matter for everyone to takesufficient heat to vaporize the
seriously.Yes, the home is as safe asfuel.And fuel does not have to be petrol
you make it to be - if you take stepsor kerosene. A piece of wood is
to prevent fires from occurring in thecombustible when it becomes heated
first place.Fire can also be a friend orenough. Cloth and paper are also
a foe to mankind. Fires have beenfuels for a fire. The plastic chair in
used for keeping warm, for cooking, foryour dining room can be a fuel.
lighting, and so on. IfIn fact all organic materials can burn
it were not for the discovery andif it is hot enough.Oxygen is always
utilization of fire, mankindpresent in our atmosphere. In fact we
will have a very hard time surviving inthrive on the
the cold reaches of theoxygen in the air to live. Oxygen
Earth. Our early ancestors used firesoccupies about 21 percent by volume
to ward away wild animals.Food tastesin air, the rest being nitrogen. So in
better when cooked or warmed up on anormal conditions, this part of
fire. Farmersthe Fire Triangle will always be
clearing fields of weeds have also usedpresent and is very difficult to avoid
fire. Many scientifichaving when we plan our fire prevention
discoveries are obtained by using themeasures in our homes. It will
heat from fires.Internal combustionbe more relevant when we want to stop a
engines, steam boilers, make use offire that has already started.
engineering principles of combustion.In this case, one of the ways to break
Engineers and scientiststhe Fire Triangle is to remove
have studied how to harness the heatoxygen. There are ways to do this, one
from fires for energyof them is by blanketing or
generation.Fire is a true friend if yousmoldering.However, in our planning for
know how to use it well. The benefitsfire prevention, we can look at ways of
to mankind are many. Sometimes wereducing the chances of oxygen rich
forget that it can also be veryatmosphere forming anywhere around
dangerous.There is a saying, "It takesthe fuel and the heat. This has been
a tree to produce one million matches,known to start fires rapidly.Everybody
but it takes a match to destroy aknows that heating can cause fires.
million trees". That's the powerHowever, we must not be
of a fire. It can also destroyunduly alarmed if there are sources of
tremendously. It can go out ofheat around us. We simply cannot
control. Efforts must be made to tameavoid the heat. In fact we use heating
it.There should not be any doubt in thefor our own benefit. Simply put,
minds of people. Fire is a boonwe must treat heat and fire with
to mankind. But it needs to berespect. We should also study the
controlled well in order to usemechanism of a fire.The Mechanism of
it.People who makes use of fire, (thatStarting a FireIf you put the flame of a
includes all of us), must knowlighted match under a piece of wood, you
the nature of a fire, and how a firecan
can start. It is a fundamentalbe sure that most of the time the wood
rule to understand what we are dealingwill not catch fire. Even if
with.In order for us to use fireyou dip a lighted cigarette into a pan
properly, we should know somethingof lubrication oil, it is very
about how a fire can occur. People whounlikely that the pan of oil will catch
have a natural fear of firefire.So how does a fire actually
usually do not know much about fires.start?To answer this question, we must
If they know how a fire canknow how a fuel burns. A piece of wood
start, they will not fear it as much,can be considered a fuel. The carpet
but rather treat it withfabric on the floor of your house
respect. The more you find out aboutis also a fuel. But why does some fuel
fires, the better you will beburn so easily while others do
at preventing it from going out ofnot? How does a fuel burn?Taking a
hand.Starting a FireHow a fire canpiece of wood as an example, below is
start?In order for a fire to start,the sequence of events
three conditions must be met, and theythat happen when a fire occurs.
must be present together. The



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