Jon Butt
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Fire extinguishers aren't just nice safety features to have around anymore. The prevalence of chrome extinguishers in modern hotel and restaurant design is starting to revolutionize how the public thinks about one of the inescapable fixtures of modern life: visible safety features.
Setting up a small construction site is a big event for any business. But from the fence to the fire extinguisher trolley, there are any number of hidden expenses and scheduling issues you'll need to deal with when you're setting up a site for a small construction project.
Fireproof doors: a foolproof solution to fire safety issues, right? Not always. As the victims of the 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire learned, sometimes the most state-of-the-art fire safety measures don't do any good in the heat of the moment.
The fire brigade, especially in the past decade, has been hailed throughout the world as one of the unambiguously heroic members of a community. Fire fighters work selfishly to put out destructive fires, often running into burning buildings to save innocent lives. But was the history of the fire brigades always quite this romantic?
You've seen intumescent coatings, even if you don't think you have. Modern buildings with exposed steel frameworks are usually coated with the high-sheen fire-retardant coatings in order to stop fires quickly and prevent too much damage from being done to the underlying steel. But what does this practical approach to fire fighting mean for modern design sensibilities?