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Re: Fire Origin Pattern Persistence
Posted by:
SCarman (IP Logged)
Date: November 20, 2016 11:11PM
Dennis,
What I've learned would generally support your comment. One part of your premise though that I'm not sure of is the factor of timing as to when the original fuel positions are no longer of "much" importance. When a fire in a room becomes fully involved, by common definition of that term, there is more fuel gas being released and present in a room than there is oxygen to burn it. Accordingly, the fuel will only burn where there is enough oxygen. Providing the fire continues to burn fully involved, burn damage will predominate from that point on where the actual combustion occurs. Because of that, the original fuel positions become less important with time in relation to burn patterns generated later in the fire.