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Rosalie B. wrote:
> Looking at the fire damage, I find it hard to believe that the
> temperature wouldn't have been high enough to trigger sprinklers.
But the sprinklers would have to be in the area above the baclony (or
rather the underside of the one above. The ambient temperature below has
little impact, it is the heat at the head. I think most of the
combustibles would have been taken care of by then and definitely more
than enough time to have brands and/or heat kick off the one above. Its
been about 20 years since I had to deal with sprinklers
semi-professionally. There are indications that sprinklers INSIDE some
rooms went off after the glass broke, which does give some credence to
the possibility.
I am looking forward actually get a chance to read the investigation
to see where my ideas are right and wrong.
But
> cruise ships don't go just to warm climates. I remember seeing a
> freezer which had been retrofitted into a building and inside the
> freezer was a sprinkler head. What that meant was that nothing
> downstream of the freezer was protected by the sprinkler system,
> because the water froze in the pipes that were inside the freezer.
There are other ways to work that in cold areas. In addition, they
would not likely not freeze at exactly 32 degrees and could easily be
insulated. |