As the old saying goes – there is no smoke without fire. So, surely the reverse must be true – there is no fire without smoke? Now, I have blogged before about the dangers of smoke inhalation. As most people know, smoke from a fire actually causes more morbidity (posh word for illness) than fire [...]
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Did you know that the number one cause of death related to fires is smoke inhalation. An estimated 50%-80% of fire deaths are the result of smoke inhalation injuries rather than burns.
Smoke inhalation occurs when you breathe in the products of combustion during a fire. Combustion results from the rapid breakdown of a substance by [...]
Now, if I said the word ‘intumescent’ to you, would you know what I meant? Chances are, the answer is ‘no’. Or at least I hope it is, because until I wrote this blog, I had absolutely no clue what the word meant, in fact I had never actually heard it, so it didn’t even [...]