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What kind of server room is this which is not equipped with smoke detectors?
by iSnow 14y ago
What kind of server room is this which is not equipped with smoke detectors?
- dredmorbius 14y agoDepending on how effective the ventilation system is / how diffuse the smoke is, the detectors may not do much to pinpoint where the smoke originated. Many DCs only have so many smoke detectors, at fairly wide intervals. There can be a lot of devices inside a 30' square.
- gambiting 14y agoIf it's just the "melting plastic" kind of smoke, it won't trigger smoke detectors. And I believe that his battery wasn't actually on fire - if it was, then yes, smoke detectors would have triggered.
- HeyLaughingBoy 14y agoOh yes, it will. I made my 12 year-old read the story (along with pictures) of a girl his age who was trapped in a burning house after he set off the smoke alarms at midnight by melting bits of plastic in his room. Hopefully he learned something that night.
- eridius 14y agoHow did setting off smoke detectors cause a fire?
- HeyLaughingBoy 14y agoPoor sentence structure on my part. My son set off the smoke detectors by melting plastic in his bedroom with a cigarette lighter. To demonstrate the danger of what could come from this, I had him read a news report of a girl who was screwing around with fire and ended up being badly burned over most of her body.
- vacri 14y agoDo smoke detectors also detect smells? The question doesn't report any smoke at all.