there has been some work several years after this by McGrattan (of the same group as Cooper, whom retired therefrom), Stroup, Madrzykowski, Hamins that did not state such a doubly-negative appraisel.
sure, smoke venting can help firefighters find the seat of a fire in high-piled storage. But if visibility is THAT bad in there to begin with, the fire command officer should think long and hard about sending firefighters inside. High-piled storage (without ESFR) almost always needs firefighters to finish the suppression. but there are plenty of occassions where they should not be sending firefighters into high-piled storage where the sprinklers systems simply did not do their job...either by design, or management changing their use, or by lack of maintenance. Smoke logged high-piled storage is an application where IR vision would be a real benefit. We lost firefighters in Charleston on such a scenario, did we not? Personally, I think the utility of smoke venting large open-plan spaces with high-piled storage is so marginal, that we will not be able to get a clear and vivid picture painted of their outstanding character. scot deal excelsior fire engineering _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
