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Grenfell Tower.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60816108

The beginning.......

"The first 999 call came from Behailu Kebede at 00:54 BST, who lived in Flat 16. His smoke alarm woke him up and he saw what was in all probability an electrical fire at the back of his fridge freezer. He called for help, alerted neighbours and waited for the London Fire Brigade to arrive.

Sir Martin Moore-Bick's report found Mr Kebede blameless. He turned off his electricity and closed the flat door to keep others safe."

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    However in a block with hundreds of rooms, crossing fingers and hoping there will never be a fire in any of the kitchens is a poor approach to safety. Far better to design to limit  the damage, so just the one flat burns out.

    Actually modern fridge gasses, being no longer the ozone damaging fluro-carbons that do not decompose, are now things like cyclo-pentane, which is much easier to dispose of by oxidation (= burning ! ).
    This is a similarly deliberate calculation that the very rare extra incidence of  fire at ground level is a small price to pay set against a certain  damage to large populations by rising levels  of mutagenic UV radiation  reaching the ground due to reduced density of high altitude ozone.
    For the same reason paint and hair spray propellants have been slightly more flammable since the early 1980s.

    Mike

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    However in a block with hundreds of rooms, crossing fingers and hoping there will never be a fire in any of the kitchens is a poor approach to safety. Far better to design to limit  the damage, so just the one flat burns out.

    Actually modern fridge gasses, being no longer the ozone damaging fluro-carbons that do not decompose, are now things like cyclo-pentane, which is much easier to dispose of by oxidation (= burning ! ).
    This is a similarly deliberate calculation that the very rare extra incidence of  fire at ground level is a small price to pay set against a certain  damage to large populations by rising levels  of mutagenic UV radiation  reaching the ground due to reduced density of high altitude ozone.
    For the same reason paint and hair spray propellants have been slightly more flammable since the early 1980s.

    Mike

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