Closed Doors Save Lives! The 1st Battalion is home to the greatest number of unsprinklered high-rise apartment buildings in Montgomery County. Most of the time, fires occuring in these structures are relatively small in size and are quickly contained when discovered early. However, once a fire begins to consume an apartment, the apartment doors become pretty darn important in terms of fire growth and spread. In a high-rise apartment building, the hallway (a.k.a. public corridor) is a very important place: it is where occupants will evacuate once the fire alarm sounds and it is where firefighting crews will stretch and advance their hose lines for fire attack. When fire leaves the apartment and enters the hallway - the game changes - as they say. When a hallway is contaminated with smoke, flames, and toxic gases - occupant self-evacuation can be a deadly. Of course, fire attack also becomes much more difficult. In Montgomery County, apartment doors that open into a public corridor (hallway) must be equipped with self-closing devices. These devices generally include some type of spring-loaded hinge or door closure mechanism. IF YOU LIVE IN ONE OF THESE APARTMENTS - PLEASE BE SURE THAT YOUR DOOR CLOSURES WORK! If the closures do not work - contact your building maintenance staff to have the repairs made. AND BY ALL MEANS, DO NOT DISABLE THE CLOSURES - YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF YOUR NEIGHBORS DEPEND ON IT! //med
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:01:00 +0000
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