A surprisingly well-researched and illustrated video from an amateur journalist about fire safety, emphasizing in modern high-rise building you are safer to shelter in place with fire doors closed than try to escape through smoky stairways, because of fire-resistant construction methods that keep the fire compartmentalized.
10:53 sprinklers reduce risk of death by 80%.
The "intumescent strips" (6:52) that expand and jam the door closed sealing the fire inside are designed to deploy after any chance of saving lives has expired, meaning that you should have escaped long before the strip deploys. What does this mean for "sheltering in place" in a fire-safe building?
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