The importance of fire safety in regards
to Christmas trees cannot be over emphasized. This video
demonstrates how intensely a Christmas tree can burn, and how rapidly
the fire can and will spread throughout a room/house. For those of you
with "real" Christmas trees, please be sure you keep the tree watered
and sources of ignition away from the tree (space heaters, candles, fire
places, etc.).
Courtesy of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology http://www.nist.gov
This video demonstrates the ability of a residential sprinkler to
control a fire in the early stages, keeping it from spreading throughout
a structure.
As the fire races up the curtains, the temperature at the ceiling rises,
causing the sprinkler head to activate. In seconds, the fire is
extinguished.
