Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Structural Defects Influencing the Spread of Fire: Suggestions for Their Elimination and Protection
Fire usually spreads much faster vertically than horizontally and for that reason it is most important that it have no open path from the room in which it starts to rooms above, and that there be no openings in the ?oor through which burning embers may drop, spreading the fire in the story below. Such openings permit a rapid destruction of a building by a fire and their protection is imperative to safeguard both the building and the lives of its occupants.
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