A fire in a laboratory environment can be particularly dangerous and severe due to the potential presence of highly combustible chemicals and other compounds. As well as putting lives and essential equipment at risk, a fire has the potential to destroy years of painstaking research.
Due to the potential of a fire being caused by solvent spillage, areas such as fume cupboards, hoods, solvent stores, exhaust systems, air conditioning and filtration systems are all particularly at risk. What is required in these high-hazard "micro-environments" is dedicated, fast response fire detection and suppression that will extinguish the fire precisely where it starts and before it spreads. What is required in these high-hazard "micro-environments" is dedicated, fast response fire detection and suppression that will extinguish the fire precisely where it starts and before it spreads.