13-04-15 8:44 pm – Source: Reuters
A fire at plastic factory on Nijverheidsstraat in the Gelderland Huissen, years ago © Reuters
If a large fire to be extinguished, the water supply often provides less than 10 percent of the required amount of extinguishing water. Fire safety is at stake because the extinguishing capacity is inadequate, says Ynso Suurenbroek, former fire chief and former lecturer Fire at Saxion University, Monday in FD.
The presence of hydrants gives according to him a false sense of security. ” Businesses, schools, hospitals, farms and villas are more at risk than the residents and users think. Cause of the fire expert capacity problem as is the steady reduction in the diameter of the water supply. “While it is good for health that water will flow faster, also the extinguishing capacity takes off by. Allow controlled burning remains at large objects often the only option. ”
He calls the situation sinister deadly. “Over the last fifteen or twenty years has been a great destruction of extinguishing power and thus of capital.” The fire ripped now often a useless pump. “For a typical fire in a terraced house has a fire a standard capacity of 2,000 liters per minute. However, the pump can not be connected to the drinking water because it not so much capacity delivers’ said Suurenbroek, who worked 25 years in the fire service and now runs a research firm.
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