Fire Sprinkler Demonstration

10/22/09 - The Harrisonburg Fire Department demonstrates the importance of fire sprinklers for a live audience. There are two identical mock dorm rooms on display at a student apartment complex near James Madison University. The gold room has one fire sprinkler, and the purple room does not. The fire department conducts a live burn, setting fire to the two rooms simultaneously. Captain Arthur Miller first describes how fast the fire burns, then the fire is started around 3:20 in the video. Once the fire starts, the sprinkler controls the fire 20-25 seconds later. The other fire burns uncontrollably. In under 3 minutes, the fire flashes over and becomes unsurvivable.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Harrisonburg
• Fire
• Department
• Sprinkler
• Demonstration
• JMU

[coffee107]

to save you the talk, the fire starts at 3:20

[pipeslayer308]

great demonstration!!!