Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction

A scrap of paper, tossed aside after lighting a gas jet, cost a great establishment more than £100,000. James Braidwood begins with a harder warning: a fire may start with the smallest act of carelessness.

Writing in the mid-19th century, Braidwood draws on fire brigades’ experience to examine how fires begin, spread, and can be stopped. He points to candles by curtains, embers left on hearths, and timber hidden beside a chimney—ordinary hazards that can turn a home or workplace into a danger to the whole neighbourhood. Rules are easy to make after disaster; the real challenge is keeping people vigilant before it comes. Which familiar habits are putting lives and buildings at risk? And what must change to keep a spark from becoming a calamity?

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