The sneaky thing about this pheno-

menon is that prior to flashover the

fire can burn quietly, inconspicuously,
unknown to anyone.
Sometimes fire will proceed from
ignition to flashover in as little as
three minutes.
After flashover, fire and toxic gases
can spread with devastating speed.
There is one — only one — practical
and reliable solution to the "inside
the building" fire.
That solution is to detect and inter-
cept the early fire before it reaches
the deadly room flashover stage.

WHY A FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM

IS ESSENTIAL TO NEW CONSTRUCTION
Increasingly today, wise investors are constructing only suppression system protected buildings. Here are the
reasons why:

1. Non sprinklered buildings are
coming to be considered "not
firesafe". Fire Chiefs have
extensively promoted new
codes requiring sprinklers,
sometimes on a retroactive
basis.
2. The suppression system pro-
tected building has the lowest
fire insurance rate and the best
guarantee against future rate
increases.
a Actual (true) dollar lossess from
fire frequently run to three or
four times the insurance
recovery. Most small businesses
that suffer major fire damage
end up in the financial ruin
despite the insurance payment.
4. Fire deaths often result in extre-
mely adverse publicity and law-
suits. One fire can destroy a
business that took a lifetime
to build.
5. A fire death in a sprinklered
building is a rarity. Automatic
fire control is the proven best
life safety guarantee.
6. An electrically supervised
sprinkler system is the best
defense against arson.
7. A suppression system protects
the things that really count,
the things inside the building,
the people, the children, the
business, and the profits.

( Don't gamble with human life. Insist on an engineered Patton Life Safety Fire
Suppression System.

PATTON FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS, INC. Professional Engineers No. F.P.280

5316 Roseville Rd. • North Highlands, CA 95660 • Phone (916) 338-0943 • California Contractors License No. 355636
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THE INTERIOR FIRE
FIRST DESTROYS THE
MOST VULNERABLE-
HUMAN LIFE.

THE CONTENTS ARE

NEXT DESTROYED.

THE STRUCTURE
ITSELF HAS BEEN
THE BEST PROTECTED,
AND USUALLY IS THE
VERY LAST TO GO.

WHEN IS A HOUSE
WORTH MORE THAN A CHILD?
WHEN THE BUILDING IS PROTECTED AGAINST FIRE AND THE CHILD IS NOT!

The U.S. has the highest fire death and burn rate in
the entire world.
This holocaust will continue unabated so long as it
is a normal policy to fireproof buildings— but allow
everything within to burn uncontrolled.
Buildings are fireproofed at great additional cost to
protect the structure itself. Even the one family
dwelling is sheathed throughout with fireproof
wallboard.
Indeed, many buildings are so greatly fireproofed
that they will withstand a 2000°F temperature
throughout the interior for four full hours.
This keeps the building intact while everything
inside is consumed to a cinder.
Almost everything inside will burn — things like
furniture, plastics, electrical appliances, children,
business records, heirlooms, hopes, dreams,
ambitions.
We believe fire safety should begin inside the
building. More than ninety per cent of the fires
begin in the contents — the interior combustibles —
not the structure itself. It is the interior that
requires the protection.
Our fire suppression and control systems represent
the very latest in fire technology. When fire occurs
a detector nearest the fire will open a nozzle to
provide a fine water spray to control the fire and
protect everything inside as well as the building
itself.