Posted on 06/13/2017 7:47:02 PM PDT by Brown Deer
Watch live: A huge fire has engulfed a 24-story apartment block in West London.
Presser: Still in emergency response mode. 20 in critical care in hospital. Unaccounted for number not known yet. Fire brigade is in the building. Fire brigade on scene within 6 minutes....
Top half of building is a blackened, charred mess, at least on the exterior...
Um, no, they run on electricity. We had one in a camping trailer. There is no generator to run the compressor or combustion engine to create the mechanical energy to compress the gasses in the refrigerator. Just a different method of creating cold with different gasses.
On viewing the blackened shell, it is obvious that the building is concrete and the structure will not burn. However, as related by an engineer and is clearly visible, the exterior cladding caught fire and then caught the interior ablaze through broken windows.
The exterior is never sprinkler protected.
Per guest on BBC policy: questions about lack of sprinklers, exterior cladding, fire doors didn’t work to slow spread, stay put policy...
In this case, the interior wasn’t sprinkler protected, either.
We never had an igniter on ours, it was plugged in (and no, there was not a piezo starter on there either).
“Um, no, they run on electricity. We had one in a camping trailer. There is no generator to run the compressor or combustion engine to create the mechanical energy to compress the gasses in the refrigerator. Just a different method of creating cold with different gasses.”
Generally the refrigerator in a camper/RV/off grid can run on 12V DC, 120V AC, or propane. The propane does indeed power the refrigerator when the 12V or 120V is not available.
You have 3 way and 2 way fridges. The two way ones are usually propane or 120V ac powered. The 3 way ones add the 12V DC capability.
Mfg Part #: RML8555R
Tech Notes:
Refrigerator capacity without freezer: 6.7 cu. ft.
Freezer capacity: 1.2 cu. ft.
12V DC/ 120V AC/ LP
Right door hinge
http://www.campingworld.com/shopping/item/dometic-rml-8555r-euro-6-7-cu-ft-3-way-refrigerator/56313
London mayor Sadiq Khan on scene and holding a presser.
Yeah, I looked it up and you are talking about an absorption refrigerator. The one in our RV did not have a pilot,(though it had ammonia gas - I remember the leak). Ours didn’t have a switch like that either, I would bet residential units are different than RV units, but I could be wrong.
I found out that there are even kerosene powered fridges.
https://www.lehmans.com/product/dometic-kerosene-refrigerator/gas-refrigerators-freezers
Yes, the residential ones that might explode are the ones using propane as the refrigerant.
The problem is the propane leaking into the box, creating an explosive mixture in a sealed container.
The staircase can act like a chimney. someone opens a door and boom, it flashes. But one would think that for this to happen so quickly and completely it had to had some help.
Nifty, though that model doesn’t have a thermostat :(
I’m old enough to remember natural gas air conditioners. Whole house air conditioners. Not too popular, but I’ve seen them once or twice. The only thing electric was the blower for the air circulation in the house or building.
I’m certain that older campers used propane for most everything since it was/is relatively portable and doesn’t require a hookup.
Just catching up with overnight headlines and read this on Drudge:
Mom threw baby from ninth floor
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The Sun reports:
A heroic bystander caught the tot.
6 dead, toll expected to rise; 74 injured, 20 of which are critical.
True.
Fortunately, no one who is prepared to burn a high rise full of people alive, like a pilot in a cage or 19 Yazidi girls burned alive for refusing to have sex with their ISIS captors or even a DMV clerk (see post #22 this thread) would ever disable an alarm system!
Unless, of course, the arsonist(s) disconnected the sprinklers off alarm.
Update: 12 dead. 64 in hospital. Unconfirmed report of the fire starting after a refrigerator exploded on the 23/24 floor. Okaaay....
Per BBC: “A lot of people” still unaccounted for...
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