THE VIDEO SHELF · home fire safety
New vs Old Room Fire Final UL
A short NIST-based demonstration places a room furnished with old natural-material furniture beside one with modern synthetic furnishings and burns both. The modern room reaches full flashover in a few minutes while the legacy room is only starting to spread.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as vivid proof that modern fires develop much faster, which is the argument for working smoke detectors and early escape.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- jarhead96
- Topic
- home fire safety
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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In regards to the smoke detectors, I love that your department does that! I think what finally drove me to realize how important working smoke detectors are, is that video of a modern room flashing over in like 3 minutes. For those who haven't seen …
WWLink on Hacker News · 2017-01
In Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have killed Berkeley coupleLike my sibling sort of did I want to point out that this possibly was meant to counter another trend. Unfortunately furniture nowadays burn much faster than before. They did an experiment. Built one room with old furniture made from solid wood and other "old …
tharkun__ on Hacker News · 2021-08
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