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ROB KINNIBURGH: I'm Rob Kinniburgh, I'm one of the deputy chiefs at Charlotte Fire Department.
I'm also your fire marshal with the City of Charlotte.
I'm glad you guys came out.
It's very important that if the fire alarms go off, you get out. Because you don't know
what the problem is, and until we determine what it is, it's a true emergency.
You can help us greatly by evacuating when the alarm goes off.
Now today, what you're going to see is we've got two buildings; two simulated dorm rooms,
one with sprinklers, and one without.
They're both furnished the same; not fancy, but furnished the same.
We're going to light both of them on fire.
Now, a lot of people think, well I've got a smoke detector in my house, and that's enough.
No, it's not.
Chances are, you'll sleep through the smoke detector.
You've been studying hard, you might sleep through it.
You won't sleep through the sprinkler system going off. The sprinkler system will wake
you up. Most times, the sprinklers will go off before the smoke detector goes off.
We want you to hear and see the progression of the fire, the smoke detector, the sprinkler
system.
The one that's not sprinklered, we're going to let it burn for six minutes. That's the
average response time of Engine 27 to the University.
That's the average time it's going to take us from the moment we find out about it to
the moment we're here.
So, what I want you to see at the end is what's saved with sprinklers and what's destroyed
without.