By John Channing MSc(Safety) MSc(Chemistry) FIOSH RSP
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A fire in a room with the door closed will take a long time to spread and will often die down or may even go out due to having consumed all the oxygen. This is why, in a fire situation, it is important to close doors whenever possible and to be very careful when opening a closed door since the inrush of fresh air containing oxygen can cause a sudden reignition of the fire with explosive force. When a fire occurs in a large open-plan area of a building the smoke and heat cannot escape and will build up at ceiling level, then spread outwards possibly igniting other materials.
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A substance is put into the fire which readily absorbs heat thus preventing the fire itself from heating the unburnt fuel up to ignition temperature. Water is the most common heat removal agent because it is cheap, readily available and has a high latent heat of vaporisation. 10). 4 Interference with the reaction Fire is propagated by means of a free radical chain reaction and so anything which will interrupt this chain will cause the fire to die. 46 Workplace Safety ‘halons’ family of chemicals, which are chloro-, bromo-, fluoro-hydrocarbons, are very efficient at this but can have undesirable side effects in that their breakdown products can be toxic.