Jane Embury looks back at a major fire where containment was non-existent Last week I wrote about the importance of containment if a fire breaks out. Containment is simply about trapping the fire in the place where it started, and making sure that it doesn’t spread. It’s about protecting lives and property. But it’s also […]
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Contain to protect
Jane Embury compares two fires in the past week in London and Milan Last week saw a potentially serious fire in a multi-storey building in London. More than 15 fire crews and some 100 firefighters were deployed to bring it under control. Luckily, nobody was badly hurt. The fire in Battersea was in a building […]
9/11 and fire in tall buildings
Jane Embury looks at fire compartmentation in new tall buildings The 20th anniversary of 9/11 is fast approaching. In the wake of the Twin Towers, their replacement, the One World Trade Center opened in 2014. Although 9/11 was a manmade disaster, the Grenfell Tower fire again underlines that tragedies in tall buildings do happen. In […]
