Ingles

Fire protection:
Fire protection is called the set of measures that are available to protect buildings against fire action.
Generally, with them trying to get three purposes:
• Saving Lives
•Minimize the economic losses caused by fire.
• Ensure that the building activities can be resumed within shortest possible time.
The salvation of human lives is often the sole purpose of the rules ofthe various states and the other two insurance companies impose lowering the more appropriate policies are the media.
Key measures against fires can be classified into two types:

passive means:For a quick and easy evacuation of building occupants, the various regulations determine the width of hallways, stairs and doors of escape, the maximum distances to travel to reach a safe place, andconstruction features (doors open in the direction of the evacuation, stairs with handrails,...). Also established protected escape routes (corridors and stairs), so that not only have walls, floors andceilings resistant to fire action, but are decorated with noncombustible materials. The provisions come to determine that a flight of stairs shall have a minimum of three steps, to avoid tripping.
Toslow the progression of the fire divides the building into fire areas of certain sizes, sectors limited by walls, ceiling and floor of a certain fire resistance. In the evacuation, moving from onesector to another, is to reach a safer place.
It is known that Nero, when Rome rebuilt after the fire, forced the party walls of the houses were of stone, to prevent a repetition in the future such adisaster. It is the first news we have of establishing something similar to what is now known as "sectors of fire."
active media:
They are divided into several types.
• Screening:
Through automaticdetectors (smoke, flame or heat, depending on the matters contained in the premises) or manual (timbres that anyone can click if you see an outbreak of fire).
• Warning and Signaling:
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