Home Fire Sprinkler Demonstration

http://www.firesprinklerinitiative.org
A side-by-side room display set up at the Plymouth Massachusetts Fire Department. Sprinklers had been installed in only one of the rooms. Both rooms were set on fire. Home fire sprinklers are designed to activate when a certain degree of heat increase is reached, so as the temperature in the display went up, the sprinklers went off. As seen in this demonstration, the fire in the sprinklered room was controlled quickly by overhead sprinklers. In contrast, the fire in the room without sprinklers burned out of control until the fire department put out the fire.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Fire
• Sprinkler
• Home
• House
• Sprinklers
• NFPA
• National
• Protection
• Association
• Plymouth
• Department
• Blaze
• Smoke
• Deadly
• Test
• Firefighter

[nathanwilefrazier]

For the first 2 minutes I was thinking, "I'm definitely not buying that brand of sprinkler."

[oilerskickbutt85]

Residential sprinklers save lives and should be mandatory... they will be eventually in every new home. great video, clearly shows the benefits of a sprinkler system

[Rmckay630]

When I first saw this video I though it had been sped up, fires really do act faster than expected. I want sprinklers in my house.

[ffwunchie]

Using this in a presentation, thank you!

[peter17572]

What was that stuff pouring out ???? In the first one ?

[ifind2com]

Thanks for this video :)

Sprinklers.iFind2.com installed mine. It was only $1899 in Richmond, TX for my entire yard. 6 zones 16 heads.

They also had a $1399 option for front and back yard only.

[psnavata]

I believe in this home fire sprinkler system. I'm getting one. :) for those who don't think that this should be mandatory, would be alright if firefighters don't go inside your burning houses so they can at least avoid the risk of dying?

[SuperAdam1313]

You can fix water damage, you can't fix fire damage!

[pickleANDtambouring]

Fire Sprinklers Save Lives... Would you rather have water damage? Or be dead?

[ddc417]

Would you rather have some water damage in your house, or have your house and everything in it completely burnt to the ground? Not to mention the possibility of loss of life.

[linuxnerdy]

@mmoglia4 They might not know how, but there is definitely the ability to turn it off.