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This DVD collects a number of notable episodes from the ITV current affairs series which ran from 1963-1999. The Granada-produced series was trailblazing and hard-hitting, choosing subjects that other...
Shows an office fire in real time reaching flashover in about 4.5 minutes. This is typical of many office fires caused by carelessness. Explains why fires like this happen and gives advice on preventing them.
Shows what happens when a tea light containing two dead matches, pushed up against a television set, causes a fire in a typical front room. The room was designed with furniture complying to current...
Footage from British Movietone newsreels and elsewhere. Shows air, road and rail crashes, buildings collapsing, fires, floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. Air crashes include: the Hindenburg explosion,...
Introduces the subject of fire surveying and examines the considerations necessary to assess the risk. Covers: role of the surveyor; examples of information necessary for reports; assessment of the...
Shows what happens when a settee is ignited by a single match in a test to simulate fire in a furnished front room. In three minutes the whole room is engulfed by fire; the states of the fire’s rapid...
Report on the need for improved safety features on aircraft, in particular the desirability of smoke hoods. Includes an interview with a survivor of the August 1985 Manchester Airport disaster in which 55...
Emphasises the point that people do not realise how quickly fire spreads and how fast they need to react. Analyses video recordings of the Bradford City Football Ground in 1986. Looks at hazards in homes,...
Development of fast-response sprinkler systems for high storage systems.
Shows the hazards involved when fire breaks out at an oil well, and the measures taken to extinguish the fire. Shot in 1951 when fire broke out at a well in Persia.
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