Real Fire

Members of the fire service shake their heads when movies come to the theatre or on television showing fires and fire rescues. The hero always goes in at the last minute and saves the day. Television firefighters are able to do amazing rescues with a blazing fire above and around them with ease.

When you see the hero running out of the room with a rescued child and the flames rolling over his head and behind him, know that this is not reality. If that room were in a fire condition, the ceiling temperature would be 1250 degrees and it would be 600 degrees at waist height.

No one could survive that fire! Not even our hero!

In a fire situation it is hot and as black as you can possibly imagine.

Firefighter Comment

“On my hands and knees conducting a search for building occupants I put a large radar lamp in front of my breathing apparatus face piece. I could not see the light. That is the total blackness of a real fire.”

Some people confidently state that if there was a fire they would wake up, due to their keen sense of smell.
That is very interesting since a person that is sleeping does not have any sense of smell!

Please learn about fire awareness, fire safety and early warning devices to alert you of danger like smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors or fire alarm systems. Learning how to properly select and use a portable fire extinguisher can make the difference between a small fire quickly extinguished or a devastating disaster.

Your survival depends on it.