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Re: Process of Elimination
Posted by: dcarpenter (IP Logged)
Date: April 23, 2014 09:00AM
Jim,
See Section 19.5 in the 2014 edition of NFPA 921 for a description of the need for there to be evidence in order to disprove a hypothesis and the example of an electrical heater.
Doug
J L Mazerat Wrote:
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> Sorry, I guess I am not all there anymore. The
> word heater was used five times in the cause
> section. The word presence was used four times.
> The two words were never directly associated with
> each other. Give me the section and I will read it
> in context with what you are saying.
>
Douglas J. Carpenter, MScFPE, CFEI, PE, FSFPE
Vice President & Principal Engineer
Combustion Science & Engineering, Inc.
8940 Old Annapolis Road, Suite L
Columbia, MD 21045
(410) 884-3266
(410) 884-3267 (fax)
www.csefire.com
See Section 19.5 in the 2014 edition of NFPA 921 for a description of the need for there to be evidence in order to disprove a hypothesis and the example of an electrical heater.
Doug
J L Mazerat Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
...
>
> Sorry, I guess I am not all there anymore. The
> word heater was used five times in the cause
> section. The word presence was used four times.
> The two words were never directly associated with
> each other. Give me the section and I will read it
> in context with what you are saying.
>
Douglas J. Carpenter, MScFPE, CFEI, PE, FSFPE
Vice President & Principal Engineer
Combustion Science & Engineering, Inc.
8940 Old Annapolis Road, Suite L
Columbia, MD 21045
(410) 884-3266
(410) 884-3267 (fax)
www.csefire.com
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