- Author
- Rohr, K. D. | Hall, J. R., Jr.
- Title
- U.S. Experience With Sprinklers and Other Fire Extinguishing Equipment.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Keywords
- sprinklers | extinguishing | fire statistics | fire suppression | effectiveness | extinguishment
- Identifiers
- sprinkler presence; tomatic extinguishing system type; prinkler operationality; number of sprinklers operating; sprinkler effectiveness in saving lives; sprinkler effectiveness in protection property; prinkler effectiveness in containing fires; automatic extinguishing systems versus other methods of extinguishment; how national estimates statistics are calculated; sprinkler-relate data elements in NFIRS 5.0
- Abstract
- In fires with sprinklers present, the chances of dying in a fire are reduced by one-half to threefourths and the average property loss is cut by one-half to two thirds, compared to fires where sprinklers are not present. Sprinklers failed to operate in only 7% of structure fires large enough to activate them. System shut-offs and other human errors were responsible for nearly all the failures.