Sentences with word «flashover»

Victims who collapse away from a fire generally die from carbon monoxide, which, pumped out in great volume by flashover fires, can kill in just a few breaths.

REALITY: When a fire reaches flashover — the point at which an entire room ignites — extreme radiant heat will produce burn marks or even burn holes in the floor..

But rather than being produced by a liquid, the markings had been burned into the floor by the radiant heat released during flashover.

[Investigators] ignored evidence that contradicted their theory, had no comprehension of flashover and fire dynamics, relied on discredited folklore, and failed to eliminate potential accidental or alternative causes of the fire.

That phenomenon, called flashover, occurs when a fire seems to burst out a room's windows and doors.

Clearly flashover had occurred.

This gas will cause an instant flashover, putting life and property in danger.

The house reached a point known as flashover — when the buildup of smoke and gas in an enclosed space causes the entire space to burst into flames — in less than five minutes, much faster than anyone thought possible.

Scientists and some field investigators, such as Lentini, knew that flashover fires could char wood at the floor level, melt metal, and create burn patterns that might suggest poured flammable liquid.

REALITY: Wood fires, especially those that reach flashover, frequently exceed the melting point of metals..

A typical flashover sequence: A fire starts on a sofa; the fire generates a hot gas layer; the hot gas layer combusts; and finally, everything ignites floor to ceiling (flashover), enveloping the room in a blaze.

At the fire lab in Kentucky, Gorbett has been examining one piece of the puzzle: how burn patterns might evolve during a flashover fire.

Witnesses had reported flames exploding out the windows — the main indicator of a flashover fire.

For a half - dozen years he and his colleagues have been repeating the same experiment: furnishing a room, setting it on fire, and then recording the blaze with video and electronic sensors until the flashover ends.

In the middle of an impulse voltage generator the size of a house, the Audi e-prototype is targeted with a flashover voltage, creating a light show and a crackle over the roof measuring 82 feet tall.