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PAINFUL DECEPTIONS -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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to avoid a slow, agonizing death from toxic smoke.
Even if the fires were intense, fire does not shatter steel structures!
Look at the steel grate in a fireplace. The grate is in contact with hot coals for hours. Sometimes natural gas flames burn underneath at the same time. However, the grates never shatter into pieces. Rather, the heat merely causes the iron to oxidize faster than normal. After many years, the grate develops a multi-colored crust of oxide, with particles of ash and soot in the crevices. Pieces of the grate eventually fall off, but only because of the thinning of the metal due to oxidation.
No fire has ever caused a fireplace grate, steel building, steel automobile, or any other steel structure to disintegrate. The maximum temperature hydrocarbons can reach in the atmosphere is about 1,800 degrees fahrenheit. However, that maximum temperature can be reached only when the hydrocarbons and the air are mixed in perfect proportions.
These perfect proportions are reached only in a few controlled situations such as a kitchen stove. This produces flames that are clean and a beautiful blue, rather than yellow and leaving trails of soot. |
