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You have nothing that is flammable in your house? What about electric fires? What if your computer caught fire in the middle of the night? I grew up in a brick

by aestra 13y ago

You have nothing that is flammable in your house? What about electric fires? What if your computer caught fire in the middle of the night? I grew up in a brick building. We had two house fires there when I was growing up, though neither in my apartment. Sure the house didn't burn down and they were pretty self contained, but those were still potentially deadly situations. Luckily all the tenants escaped. The most common way to die in a house fire anyway isn't by burning, its by smoke inhalation. If there is a fire in the next room billowing smoke, you aren't likely to wake up and you're going to inhale all that smoke.

Havoc 13y ago
>You have nothing that is flammable in your house? Curtains I guess. And wooden furniture. The only real hazard is the sofa and thats a good 1.5 meters away from anything that could cause a flame. >What about electric fires? Nope. Our electrical codes have always been light years ahead of everyone else & other places are still trying to catch up. e.g. SA required ELCBs in 1954. UK in 2008. USA...hopefully soon. We also don't get tornadoes, floods, earthquakes or blizzard. Well actually we do have earthquakes but you'd need to pay attention to notice. The only real danger in terms of fire is lightning. For that the at risk places have these massive free standing lightning spikes ( http://i.imgur.com/Sv0pdre.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Sv0pdre.jpg ). They're like 30m or something so if the calculations are right then its +- bulletproof. Finding a pic on google was quite a mission, so I'm actually kinda curious now how other countries solve the lightning problem. >What if your computer caught fire in the middle of the night? Its on an aluminium stand, which in turn is on ceramic tiles. I'd imagine the ELCB would trip long before it even caused a flame though. Lots of things are wrong with South Africa (Crime, HIV, road deaths etc), but they nailed the electrical codes & fire dangers 50 years ago.

by aestra 13y ago

Havoc 13y ago

>You have nothing that is flammable in your house? Curtains I guess. And wooden furniture. The only real hazard is the sofa and thats a good 1.5 meters away from anything that could cause a flame. >What about electric fires? Nope. Our electrical codes have always been light years ahead of everyone else & other places are still trying to catch up. e.g. SA required ELCBs in 1954. UK in 2008. USA...hopefully soon. We also don't get tornadoes, floods, earthquakes or blizzard. Well actually we do have earthquakes but you'd need to pay attention to notice. The only real danger in terms of fire is lightning. For that the at risk places have these massive free standing lightning spikes ( http://i.imgur.com/Sv0pdre.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Sv0pdre.jpg ). They're like 30m or something so if the calculations are right then its +- bulletproof. Finding a pic on google was quite a mission, so I'm actually kinda curious now how other countries solve the lightning problem. >What if your computer caught fire in the middle of the night? Its on an aluminium stand, which in turn is on ceramic tiles. I'd imagine the ELCB would trip long before it even caused a flame though. Lots of things are wrong with South Africa (Crime, HIV, road deaths etc), but they nailed the electrical codes & fire dangers 50 years ago.