Residential fire sprinklers save lives and property in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

A residential fire sprinkler saves four children's lives and property in Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada. The fire started in the kitchen when the children were using a butane canister to heat a pot of oil causing an explosion and starting the fire.

Port Coquitlam Fire Department official Terry Hotchstetter credits the home fire sprinkler system with controlling the fire, which could have easily claimed the lives of the children. View the story here:

 

Fire sprinklers save lives!

Maria Figueroa

Comments

[Stephen Stump]

Another stupid person saved, yeah! A butane canister heating a pot of oil, brilliant! Lets spend billions saving a few people from themselves.

Mr. Stump:
I sincerely hope that you don't really believe that the lives saved here, and those you call "stupid" (four children), are not worth saving. Children will do, to paraphrase you, "stupid" things and it is up to the adult community to protect them; and it begins with us, the life safety experts and you the homebuilder, to ensure that their homes are built with protection against fire. The fact is that if that home had not been equipped with fire sprinklers, as intimate as those children were with the explosion and fire, it is almost certain they would have perished.

Those at greatest risk of dying are older adults with cognitive and mobility impairments, those who are confined to wheelchairs and unable to escape on their own, young children who lack the skills to make rational decisions to save themselves; the list goes on.

Until it is your job to tell the families of these victims that they have lost their loved in a fire, or have to carry their charred bodies from the rubble, or suffer a fire in your own home, you really have no idea what the devastation of fire is.

There is no other way to achieve the kind of life-saving effectiveness provided by sprinklers through any other fire safety strategy. Fire sprinklers will save thousands of lives a year, including those you call "stupid" and whose lives are very valuable to those who love them.

[home builder Port St-Lucie]

"Another stupid person saved, yeah"

Mr Stephen Stump, please excuse me but you can not talk like this. Stupid,smart,mentally disabled or anyone it doesn't matter. Everyone deserve to live and to get helped!

Best Regards to the author of this post

Tod,
home builder Port St-Lucie