War story. Looked around house full of thick, light colored, cold smoke. We finally put the nozzle down, and looked around. Home owner had done plumbing behind the clothes washer using the lightest , I'd guess not plumbing code compliant, plastic pipe you could find. When the heap of clothes next the the back of the dryer started burning, the plastic pipe deformed toward the heat (like light bulbs sometimes do) to the point a small hole opened up. This put a small stream of water directly on top of the heap. Fire out.
Can't remember the ignition source. So the plumber story, at a stretch, is true. Besides, plumbing along with decent water systems, saves many lives a year. Cholera amd typhus are more than rare here. Sanitation saves more lives than medicine. Bruce Verhei ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Church" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:08:58 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: RE: 39% How do people sleep at night. Not once the plumbers highlighted the life-saving advantages of failing solder joints. glc -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Schulze Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: 39% How do people sleep at night. When plumbing became a requirement for homes, I wonder it if received this much opposition. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Reinhardt Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:22 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: 39% How do people sleep at night. The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=10672640&nav=menu25_2 Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail message is intended to be received only by persons entitled to receive the confidential information it may contain. E-mail messages may contain information that is confidential and legally privileged. Please do not read, copy, forward, or store this message unless you are an intended recipient of it. If you have received this message in error, please forward it to the sender and delete it completely from your computer system. _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
