Sensitive Places To Protect From Fire
While everyone and every place should be protected from fires, some need even more care and attention. The reason is that in households or offices, people are generally trained to evacuate the affected area quickly. Also, the kindled fires in houses or offices are usually not that dangerous.
There are some commercial places where proper fire suppression systems need to be installed and maintained; here is a list:
- Industrial Kitchens
We know that a fire can be sparked easily in a household kitchen; imagine the possibilities of fire in industrial kitchens. People are moving around quickly, and nobody has time to notice the small things. The place might be crowded, and people might bump into each other all the time, increasing the probability of spilling oil and causing a grease fire.
Such places need to be insured and protected through Water Mist Systems. An old-fashioned fire suppression system like sprinklers would make matters worse for the kitchen employees because they would have to clean up big time after every time the sprinklers go off. Also, sprinklers react to smoke only, so there might be false alarms going off now and then because a kitchen is where you can expect to have smoke all the time.
- Hospitals And Nursing Homes
Hospitals have an inventory of pharmaceutical products and chemicals that can catch fire easily and spread it quickly. Moreover, hospitals have patients admitted in their rooms. In case of a fire, the staff can easily evacuate the premises, but it would be very hard or impossible for some patients to make it out by themselves.
Nursing homes have older people living in their rooms. It’s impossible to escort very old people out of a fire quickly. These places also need preventive measures like a Water Mist System to fight fires instead of waiting for fires to spread and hoping to evacuate in time.
- Heritage Sites And Museums
There are two reasons heritage sites, and museums must be protected by Water Mist System. The first is that heritage sites and museums have artefacts and historical items that might be sensitive to fire or even the heat coming from the fire. These artefacts cannot be replaced with insurance coverage if a fire destroys them. The loss is not local but global.
Also, if you install a sprinkler system to secure a heritage site or museum, the suppression system will douse everything in the area with water in case of a fire. The water might prove to be harmful to the precious items as well. It is wise to use Water Mist System instead because it does not dampen the area’s items, furniture, or equipment. Instead, it creates a mist with tiny water droplets to suppress the fire. Even the cleaning process after the fire becomes easy, and there is no damage done because of the water sprayed out by the nozzles.