Smoke and lethal gases can enter air handler systems or exit doors and windows. Depending on a building’s construction, fire can be contained to one area or one floor for a time, but a closed room can be quickly engulfed, given enough accelerant and fuel. Fire needs oxygen, a fuel source and enough heat to ignite the fuel. Carbon monoxide poisoning is the leading cause of death in smoke inhalation, which causes 50-80 percent of fire deaths. A fire’s consumption of oxygen, along with chemicals produced, can displace oxygen in the lungs, irritate and injure mucous membranes, and interfere with cellular chemistry. While visible smoke is a mixture of heated particles and gases, many products of combustion are odorless and invisible. All fires combust fuel and produce poisonous smoke. Much more likely are smaller fires related to common fuel sources present in every laboratory: paper, chemicals and electronics. These events are rare, but they do happen. 2 And a fire at a lab collection site in West Seneca in April 2012 forced an indefinite closure, with smoke and water damage throughout. 1 That same year, a fire started in a laboratory in London’s Royal Marsden Hospital, a leading cancer hospital, triggering a total evacuation and destroying much of the roof. A 2008 fire in a hospital in Perambur, India’s fourth largest city, gutted a laboratory, an area connected to patient wards. and P.A.S.S., you can be prepared for any fire emergency. By learning the basics of fire response using the acronyms R.A.C.E. But electrical equipment, paper clutter and chemicals still provide plenty of fuel for any fire. Today’s laboratories are safer than ever before, with modern construction, absence of open flames and automatic detection and sprinkler systems. you can be prepared for any fire emergency.
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