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19-10-2018, 12:05 PM
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Re: How Fireproof is your Plan?

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That's true and we seem to be getting more and more in Britain too.
The 1967 and 2013 fires in Tasmania show that given the right conditions Britain will not be immune. Dry weather, high winds and a lightning strike are all it takes. I think it was 120000Ha burnt in 2013 perhaps 100 properties (can't remember exactly) and one death
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19-10-2018, 11:12 PM
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Re: How Fireproof is your Plan?

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That's true and we seem to be getting more and more in Britain too.
Indeed - look at the fire on Saddleworth Moor this Summer - took over three weeks to put it out. No comparison with what the Aussies have to face - but unusually bad for UK.
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20-10-2018, 09:35 AM
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I live in a four storey house converted into separate flats. We have an integrated fire alarm system that when 'triggered' is 'loud enough to wake the dead' (135Db). TThere is no reason to have any further plan than that.
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20-10-2018, 10:13 AM
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Re: How Fireproof is your Plan?

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I live in a four storey house converted into separate flats. We have an integrated fire alarm system that when 'triggered' is 'loud enough to wake the dead' (135Db). TThere is no reason to have any further plan than that.
I bet that's worrying when using the toaster.
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20-10-2018, 10:23 AM
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Re: How Fireproof is your Plan?

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I bet that's worrying when using the toaster.

I'm not the one to trigger it - ventilation in the kitchen on the top floor is not that good and the tenants there are forever trigering the alarm.
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20-10-2018, 10:26 AM
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Re: How Fireproof is your Plan?

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I'm not the one to trigger it - ventilation in the kitchen on the top floor is not that good and the tenants there are forever trigering the alarm.
Let's hope they don't make toast at 4am.

My smoke alarms are often triggered by the toaster and even opening the oven door, luckily it only affects us.
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20-10-2018, 04:21 PM
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Good post, Bruce.

We have the same issues with people who don't plan for hurricane evacuation.

My dad always made me promise to never stay on a hotel floor above the 6th floor. Most fire truck ladders are 100 ft long, but that is only straight up. The phrase "seventh heaven" is a good one to remember, because at that height or above, one might well be headed there in the event of a conflagration.
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20-10-2018, 07:33 PM
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I don't have any plan I live in a bungalow so have no fear of getting out and in soggy old Wiltshire fires are not really a problem .
 
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