{"id":186,"date":"2015-09-18T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qfog.se\/wp\/en\/?p=186"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T09:34:27","slug":"research-shows-that-water-sprinklers-are-not-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/research-shows-that-water-sprinklers-are-not-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Research shows that water sprinklers are not effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps atn\">In the article &#8220;<\/span><span class=\"hps\">Directed actions can save lives<\/span>&#8221; <span class=\"hps\">in<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandsakert.se\/2015\/0911\/riktade-%C3%A5tg%C3%A4rder-kan-r%C3%A4dda-liv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"hps\">Fireproof<\/span> magazin<\/a> (Brands\u00e4kert in Swedish) <span class=\"hps\">researcher<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Marcus<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Runefors<\/span> <span class=\"hps atn\">(<\/span>LTH) highlights <span class=\"hps\">the need for<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">individualized<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">measures to<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">come to terms with<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the fatal<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">fires<\/span>. Even if a<span class=\"hps\">ll accommodations<\/span> would be <span class=\"hps\">protected according to the <\/span><em><span class=\"hps\">SBF<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">501<\/span>: <span class=\"hps\">1<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Rules for<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">residential sprinklers<\/span><\/em><span class=\"hps\">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hps\">the study shows that <\/span><span class=\"hps\">half of<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the fires<\/span>\u00a0would still <span class=\"hps\">end up with<\/span> casualties<span class=\"hps\">.<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">This due<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">to the activation<\/span> being too <span class=\"hps\">slow<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">when only heat, instead of smoke, <\/span><span class=\"hps\">is<\/span> detected<span class=\"hps\">.<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Adding<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the tremendous<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">amount of water<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">damage<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">such a venture with water spriklers<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">would lead to<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">it is<\/span> <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">noteworthy<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"hps\">that<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the regulations<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">have not yet<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">been modernized. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"> Only smoke activated water <span class=\"hps\">mist sprinklers<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">could make a difference when it comes to effective <\/span><span class=\"hps\">protection<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">of people. Since mist systems also minimizes the use of water it protects buildings better from secondary costs of clean-up and reconstruction.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the translated article: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.qfog.se\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/Directed-actions-can-save-lives.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Directed actions can save lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandsakert.se\/2015\/0911\/riktade-%C3%A5tg%C3%A4rder-kan-r%C3%A4dda-liv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-187\" src=\"http:\/\/media.qfog.se\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/brandsakert-300x35.png\" alt=\"Brands\u00e4kert\" width=\"300\" height=\"35\" \/><span id=\"transmark\"><\/span><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/media.qfog.se\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/lundsth.png\" alt=\"LTH\" width=\"224\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article &#8220;Directed actions can save lives&#8221; in Fireproof magazin (Brands\u00e4kert in Swedish) researcher Marcus Runefors (LTH) highlights the need for individualized measures to come to terms with the fatal fires. Even if all accommodations would be protected according to the SBF 501: 1 Rules for residential sprinklers,\u00a0the study shows that half of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-fires","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qfog.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}