Good Morning!

We continue our Campus Fire Safety Month with some more ways to be aware of how to be fire safe.

Fire Safe Facts – Fire Characteristics

• Fire is HOT! Heat is more threatening than flames.  A fire's heat alone can kill.
• Room temperatures in a fire can be 100^◦F at floor level and rise to 600^◦F or more at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs. This heat can melt clothes to your skin.
• Fire is DARK! Fire isn't bright, it's pitch black. Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.  If you wake up to a fire you may be blinded, disoriented and unable to find your way around the home you've lived in for years.
• Fire is DEADLY! Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire uses up the oxygen you need and produces smoke and poisonous gases that kill.
• Breathing even small amounts of smoke and toxic gases can make you drowsy, disoriented, short of breath, and may kill you.

Check out the following video from the People's Burn Foundation - IGot2Kno.org website - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfvAALlqkEA.

Watch our fire safety videos streaming over the campus TV Channel 10 and watch for fire safety reminders throughout our campus.  Together we can ensure a fire safe community.

Please email the EHS office at SUNYPOLYEHS@sunypoly.edu if you have any questions.

Sean Clive, Director - Environmental Health & Safety Office