Fires With and Without a Sprinkler (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Fires With and Without a Sprinkler

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These post-fire photographs of the dorm rooms show the difference a sprinkler makes. There is little visible damage the in the top photo that had a sprinkler in the room; there was no sprinkler in the dorm room in the lower picture.

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