Sentences with phrase «flashover fires»

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

[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.