{"id":6472,"date":"2021-06-22T14:19:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:19:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:19:24","slug":"sprinklers-extinguish-chip-pan-fire-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/sprinklers-extinguish-chip-pan-fire-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprinklers extinguish chip pan fire in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Wales Fire &amp; Rescue Service reports that they were called to a fire in an apartment building in Flint at 17:42 on 5 June. On arrival, firefighters found that two sprinklers had operated to extinguish a fire in an unattended chip pan. One man in his 70s was treated in hospital for smoke inhalation. No other residents were hurt. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northwalesfire.gov.wales\/news\/2021\/6\/importance-of-sprinklers-highlighted-after-chip-pan-fire-in-flint\/\">More details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the many sprinkler myths is that they cannot deal with cooking oil fires. This mistaken belief arises because people know that pouring a cup of water into burning oil will lead to the water instantly boiling and spreading a fireball of oil. But by contrast, sprinklers release droplets of water which are too small to cause a fireball. Instead they cool the fire and suffocate it when they evaporate. Over the years we have seen several examples of chip pan fires successfully extinguished by sprinklers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Wales Fire &amp; Rescue Service reports that they were called to a fire in an apartment building in Flint at 17:42 on 5 June. On arrival, firefighters found that two sprinklers had operated to extinguish a fire in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6473,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions\/6473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}