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Subject: Re: [TenTec] equipment storage?
From: Cecil <chacuff@cableone.net>
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:44:09 -0500
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Good stuff Stuart...thanks for sharing that insight.

Cecil

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On Jul 24, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Stuart Rohre <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:

> As an long time fireman, I will mention something to hams needing to store 
> things, or to display things.
> 
> Heaven forbid you ever have a fire, but hot smoke and gases collect near the 
> ceiling, and affect anything stored high, first.  Awards on walls, cards, 
> gear stored on upper shelf of a closet may be exposed to products of 
> combustion, and even flames.
> 
> I have seen clothes survive in a closet, which had its door tightly closed, 
> even when most of the room was totally destroyed.  This particular house fire 
> was in the home of a retired military man, who was very strict with his 
> children, on keeping their closets closed at all times.  But, the least 
> affected area of the closet re smoke was down low, near the floor, under the 
> hanging clothes.
> 
> We found all the closets and clothes intact, even in a bedroom that was so 
> hot that decorative candles melted on cabinet tops.
> That saved most of their clothing when all but one wing of three burned.
> 
> Sheet rock used in home construction can be a very good insulator, for a 
> time.  Of course, it can be weakened by water, when firefighting streams are 
> used.  Good fire training has us direct our water as a fog upward into the 
> ceiling area of an involved room; hopefully with a dramatic stopping of the 
> fire when steam snuffs it out, by reducing the concentration of oxygen in the 
> room.  That one fire taught our department to be aware of closets so as to 
> lessen damage to their fire resistance.
> 
> There is a risk in all things, and even my idea of insulating by styrofoam 
> cooler, has the risk of how the styrofoam reacts to a fire.
> 
> It may be worth it to rent a fire resistant storage closet in one of the 
> commercial storage locations that has everything from garage sized storage to 
> narrow closet like compartments.
> 
> Safety to all, and check your smoke detectors on some easy to remember 
> schedule like a holiday.
> 
> Stuart Rohre
> K5KVH
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