Are you planning a holiday this summer? Well, I would imagine that the majority of people are, and so along with the usual considerations – can I lose three stone before my holiday in two weeks? Can I fit my entire wardrobe into this one tiny suitcase? What is the Spanish word for vegetarian? – [...]
From the category archives:
Fire safety equipment
If you live in a building with more than one floor to it (so I think that includes everything except bungalows – and we all know that they are only for old people anyway! Lol) there are certain fire protection issues that you need to consider.
There are the usual things that apply to all buildings [...]
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I like talking. A lot. I like chatting to people. For me, questions are not things to be answered with one word, they are to be answered with many. Conversation is good. Exchange of ideas, debate on certain subjects – all good. I like engaging with people. Face to face, on the phone, chatting online, [...]
Right – little quiz for you today. If you were a fire safety sign and you were green, what sort of information would you be giving? Do you know? Well, if the answer is ‘no’, then read on and I shall enlighten you, O lovely reader.
So, first of all why do we have fire safety [...]
If there is a fire in your building, how do you let everyone know? Well, if it is a very small room, then probably just yelling ‘FIRE! FIRE!’ would alert most people. They would panic and follow you as you leg it out of the building to safety. However, most office buildings consist of more [...]
There has been a fire in a residential building in Ottawa, Canada. Fortunately, it was possessions, and not people that were destroyed.
Residents of a multi-unit building in the Glebe destroyed in a weekend fire are now homeless and hoping that something of their lives survived the blaze.
Occupants of the three-storey brick building at 5 Monk [...]
Now, if the term ‘Fire Squid‘ sounds a wee bit odd to you, then I wholeheartedly agree, and share your confused feelings. Now, the big giant head (aka the boss man) has asked me to get my noggin around the ins and outs and technical whatnot of this piece of equipment, and then to explain to [...]
No, I have not lost my ability to spell, the title of this blog is actually correct. Well, if you work in the fire safety and prevention world it is anyway. Because today I’m going to tell you about a product called a Dorgard. Yes, I know it looks as though I have typo’d my [...]
So, yesterday was St Patrick’s Day. That fantastic day when the Irish people celebrate their patron saint’s day, and the English people celebrate the day when it is allowable, and even expected, to drink Guinness mid-week. Fantastic.
So I hope you all took full advantage of this day to go and visit shamrock-covered pubs and bars. [...]
Now for those of you who read my bloggage last month about fire blankets, you should already know a bit about them. For those of you that didn’t read it, the basic function of a fire blanket is to starve a fire of oxygen. Without oxygen, the fire cannot burn, and therefore it goes out [...]