NFPA Journal - November/December 2013 - (Page 21)

Ambulance and fire personnel administered emergency medical treatment, but he died as a result of his injuries. Investigators determined that the man had placed the pan of oil on the gas range and turned the control knob to high before he left the house. The oil overheated and ignited, and the fire spread from the kitchen throughout the house. The fire did $150,000 in damage to the house and its contents. the kitchen. Once the smoke cleared, aroni and cheese on the stove. While crews performed a secondary search cooking, he told his mother, who was and found the boy on the couch in the in the living room, that it was spilling living room, still alive. They brought on the floor. When she asked what both victims to the hospital, where the was spilling, he said "fire." It appears mother was pronounced dead. that the food overheated and ignited, Investigators determined that the and that the resulting fire spread along Maryland NFPA 2013.pdf 1 6/19/13 the trash that covered the kitchen 7:54 AM woman allowed her son to make mac- One dead, one injured in home fire VIRGINIA-A 47-year-old woman who was physically disabled died of smoke inhalation and her 8-year-old son was injured in a fire that began when a pot of food on the stove ignited and filled the home with smoke. The fire occurred in the end unit of a two-story, wood-frame, townhousestyle apartment building that had wooden walls with a brick veneer and a roof covered with asphalt shingles. Firefighters found a battery-operated smoke alarm on the floor but did not hear it operating when they entered the home. There were no sprinklers. The victim called 911 to report the fire at 5:37 p.m. and stayed on the line with the dispatcher, who advised her to get on the floor after learning she could not leave the apartment and hearing her cough due to smoky conditions. Firefighters who arrived seven minutes after the alarm found no visible smoke outside the front of the building. When they forced open the front door, however, they smelled smoke and saw hundreds of roaches trying to escape from the house. The firefighters entered the structure, where they saw fire near the kitchen and heard the victim calling to them. Unable to see through the heavy smoke and hampered by trash, they worked their way toward the woman by calling out and listening for her replies. Eventually, they found her in the living room. They removed her and used a hose line to extinguish the small fire in C You only need to know one name for Fire Protection Engineering Education, Training, and Research. The only ABET accredited Fire Protection Engineering program world-wide..................... Largest network of Fire Protection Engineers anywhere (1500+alumni, 250 current students, and 20 professors)......... M Y CM MY CY CMY K Faculty that are members of the National Academy of Engineering, fellows of SFPE, ASME, and AIChe, and recipients of NSF Career and PCASE awards............................. Online graduate programs for working engineers that can be completed in as little as 6-months................................... Access to the latest research in fire suppression and detection, scale modeling of fires, evacuation analysis, risk modeling, and forensics....................................................... L E A R N M O R E AT w w w.advancedengineering.umd.edu/fire JULY/AUGUST NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2013 NFPA JOURNAL 21

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