So all the furniture that they make nowadays that says "fire resistant" on it is just lying? Considering how many times I've seen a lit cigarette dropped on furniture and it just goes right out much less reaches flashover in 3 minutes, I find this very difficult to believe .
Most modern homes will burn to the ground about as fast as that legacy room flashed.... they are garbage not even built with solid wood floor joists anymore. There are some good builders still out there... some even build with sprinklers but most are not
It's important to have a fire extinguisher as you can extinguish most fires within at least a minute or even 2 When it reaches the ceiling then it would be hard to do it yourself
I had the honor and privilege to work in ladder 43. For 30 years. Jim Sears was a mentor to me. Always a pleasure to work with and a humble and great firefighters. God bless you Jim and thanks for all the great memories
@@eleanorhogan8643 because the modern room had poyester and other low flash point materierals as the legacy room has high flash point matterals like wood, cotton, wool, silk! also polyester and plastic will cling to the body if burned on as with cotten or wool would cleanly burn off you!
Proving non-fire treated polyurethane foam burns super well is nothing new or a surprise. Without the open side and infinite ventilation the thick smoke would have kept the fire from growing like it did!! Many fire departments are using this video as an excuse to never try to go inside since they can't make it to a fire in less than the flash-over in this unrealistic video. There is no other modern plastic in common use that burns like blown foam polyurethane! Most burn poorly. Why is something introduced in the 1950s suddenly being used in 2010s as a reason to not fight fires in the interior of structures????? This video has done a lot of harm!
This is comparing furnishings not build methods or material. You may want to open up a wall or two in that old home of yours. I have seen many that use newspapers and other stuff for insulation.
This stupid video is a piece of shit and retarded and just fake because first it has a whole fucking wall missing and a huge amount of oxygen is supplied to both of the rooms and also what’s the fucking point of making new and modern furniture if it’s more unsafe than the old furniture, furniture is treated with flame retardants and it’s supposed to reduce flammability than ever before and it’s supposed to reduce the emissions of deadly gases more than ever before as well, natural materials can also give out HCN (Hydrogen Cyanide) when they’re on fire as well, and that is proven by the American Chemistry Council. And also Polyurethane Foam can’t ignite as easily as natural materials can by a smouldering source. The Modern Room is probably not treated with Flame Retardants, And The Legacy Room is probably treated with flame retardants to make the stupid video look like This. What a bunch of lies and fake stuff and retardness and shit can this stupid fucking video show. Underwriter Laboratories, what a fucking let down, wrong information posted by the fucking media to try and scare people. This fucking Video is just retarded, shit, fake and just a fail in my opinion and it’s should be completely removed and deleted from RU-vid immediately and also removed and deleted from every other Internet page and file in existence right now. Because this Piece Of shit Video is just stupid retarded Spam.!
Thanks. I was wondering why all the houses in Sonoma-Napa burned so fast, despite some having tile roofs and tree-free defensible space all around them. After the Oakland FIrestorm, much has been said about keeping the brush away from your house, but in Santa Rosa it didn't seem to make a difference.
1. When seconds count, help is minutes away. 2. Smoke detectors save lives: as long as there's a battery in it, it's properly placed, and it's loud enough to wake you up. 3. Get fire sprinklers installed in your home, either installed when built or retrofitted.
macmedic892 actually ionization smoke detectors that are in 90% of homes fail to operate 55% of the time in a smoldering fire such as this one. I suggest checking out the omni shield network. The lithium maganese batteries in them last 20 years. They also can actually see a fire happening with infra red sensors and quarts crystal processors. It's state of the art stuff but worth investing in. Comes with an app and many other features
@@Beezy089 Optical/photoelectrical and CO/2-detector if there's improper central ventilation is pretty much all you need. Heat-sensitive detectors are overkill for private residence given the enclosed space, as are giving the system a 2-way connection - This is a life-saving system, it should never EVER accept remote connections and there's absolutely no need for it. An enclosed wireless water-detector and lock-system will give audible warnings to anyone in the house and shut off the relevant valve(s) to prevent damage, while optical and/or CO-gas detectors are easy to chain-connect internally with automatic dialing over IP with SIM-backup past 30+ seconds if the owner doesn't manually stop it. Ionizing detectors are unreliable, but there's no need to spend thousands on a system that in reality makes you less safe given it introduces several new critical failure points. Even security-companies mess up occasionally, do you genuinely trust a company making smoke detectors and mobile apps to not do the same? And what is the app for actually? Are you expected to start fiddling with your mobile phone while in a potential emergency where seconds count, instead of audibly and visually(if chained) be guided to the initial detector? I assume 90% of homes is for the US? Ionizing detectors became a rarity here(across the pond) 20 years ago, and all buildings after 2010 have by law at the bare minimum optical detectors with direct net-power and battery backup(usually 5-10 year duration). IIRC anything residential built after 2015 has heat-released fire sprinklers installed as well.
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