Offsite-Use water

[Joseph Kubik]

I was defining really hot as "when the metal stove slagged". OR, when
the ceramic / glass in the area all broke from the temperature
difference inside and outside of the object.
Very Hot: Wood burning.
Really hot: Steel, Iron, Copper, etc. melting.
Extremely hot: Glass melting, Brick and cement cracking.

-Joseph-

On Apr 12, 2005 2:04 PM, Robert Brockway <rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Joseph Kubik wrote:
> 
> > The toilet is bad, the ceramic cracks in a fire most of the time.
> > A REALLY hot fire is hard to protect against. However, most
> > residential fires I've seen were only really hot in the small area
> > where the fire started and the rest of the building was quickly
> > extinguished.
> 
> Depends on what you mean by really hot :)
> 
> I've seen quite a few house fires[1].  Most of them were hot enough that I
> found myself physically unable to get closer than 15m or so.  This is a
> common occurance that people (including myself) describe as a "wall of
> heat".  It is called a wall because it might as well be solid - it is
> impassable.
> 
> Also, houses can be completely engulfed in as little as 5 minutes so the
> building becomes the hot spot very fast.
> 
> > If you are truly paranoid, a stainless steel vacuum flask would work
> > well, especially if it were in an open metal drum full of water (it
> > needs to be able to evaporate to provide any real cooling).
> 
> To me there is simply no substitute for off site backups.  It completely
> works around any concerns relating to damage to the building.
> 
> [1]  I used to be a police officer so got to visit lots of them, usually
> while they were still burning.
> 
> Rob
> 
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