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A series of 14 test fires was conducted to validate fire protection requirements for nursing homes stipulated in the Life Safety Code and to provide a basis for modification of existing standards which are essential for protection of nursing home patients. The way in which the fire and smoke develop and spread, the time at which the fire will be detected by smoke and heat detectors and by a person at a nurse's station, and how effectively the automatic sprinklers suppress the fire and smoke, were investigated. The first tests, conducted in a test facility simulating a modern, fire - resistive building, were performed in order to evaluate the room arrangements and points of ignition needed to obtain realistic and rapidly developing fires. The remaining tests -- conducted in a vacant nursing home and in a vacant apartment building -- were instrumented to measure fire, smoke, and toxic gas development and spread, the performance of fire protection equipment, and the performance of fire resisting building components. It was found that sprinklers were extremely effective in suppressing rapidly developing fires; that in fire tests without sprinklers, ordinary plaster and gypsum board walls resisted the fires well; and that in fire tests without sprinklers, a wood panel door in which the door and frame had been coated with a fire retardant paint and a colonial panel door withstood the fire as well as the solid core wood door now required. Smoke barrier doors were effective in blocking movement of smoke through the corridor. Photographs are included.
A series of 14 test fires was conducted to validate fire protection requirements for nursing homes stipulated in the Life Safety Code and to provide a basis for modification of existing standards which are essential for protection of nursing home patients. The way in which the fire and smoke develop and spread, the time at which the fire will be detected by smoke and heat detectors and by a person at a nurse's station, and how effectively the automatic sprinklers suppress the fire and smoke, were investigated. The first tests, conducted in a test facility simulating a modern, fire - resistive building, were performed in order to evaluate the room arrangements and points of ignition needed to obtain realistic and rapidly developing fires. The remaining tests -- conducted in a vacant nursing home and in a vacant apartment building -- were instrumented to measure fire, smoke, and toxic gas development and spread, the performance of fire protection equipment, and the performance of fire resisting building components. It was found that sprinklers were extremely effective in suppressing rapidly developing fires; that in fire tests without sprinklers, ordinary plaster and gypsum board walls resisted the fires well; and that in fire tests without sprinklers, a wood panel door in which the door and frame had been coated with a fire retardant paint and a colonial panel door withstood the fire as well as the solid core wood door now required. Smoke barrier doors were effective in blocking movement of smoke through the corridor. Photographs are included.
Fire Tests in Nursing Home Patient Rooms
J. Campbell (author)
1975
6 pages
Report
No indication
English
Health Care Technology , Building Equipment, Furnishings, & Maintenance , State regions , Safety hazards , Revisions , Regulations , Patients , Long term care , Inpatients , Indiana , Health care technology , Health care services , Health care facilities , Health care delivery systems , Environmental health , Design , Reprints , Nursing homes , Fire protection , HRP/HH , HRP/KAB , HRP/SB , HRP/ZM , HRP/GAJ , HRPGEO/YIN , HRPGEO/YCN , HRPOCC/XZ , Requirements
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