Until solid statistical evidence is produced, I guess we are left will little more than opinions and speculation, relegated to tossing events and outliers from the database and leaving them as one-off examples in the rubbish bin sample space.
My opinion is America lost some serious mojo over its small hose issue. *Factory Mutual Data Sheet 8-9* *§ 3.2 Loss History* *July 2011 * The use of hoses use was identified in 87% of the incidents that operated ten or fewer sprinklers and, when hoses were used, they were applied either before sprinklers operated or before fire control was achieved in a little more than 50% of the cases. This strong correlation suggests early application of hose streams has a significant effect on the average number of sprinklers that operate in rack storage fires (it would follow that this is also true for solid-piled / palletized storage fires), and that provision of small hose stations is a key element in the overall protection scheme. It is impossible to say how many catastrophic fires may have been prevented by early intervention using hoses. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20120612/7f38694c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
