[LINK] Summary - Bush Fire Speeds (was Re: home emergencies)

[Darryl (Dassa) Lynch]

link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au wrote:
|| Tom Koltai wrote:
||| Folks - This thread started as No cash for phone alert system
||| started by Bernard. In reference to
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|| http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25060102-15
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||| We have had recommendations of education (possibly nullified by
||| speed of firefront)
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||| Lock up valuables in a fire safe
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|| Anyone had any experience with fire safes?
|| If I put my valuable slides in there will they melt?  Are
|| fire safes time rated for this sort of thing or do they just
|| prevent ignition of the contents?

There are fire safes and then there are fire safes.  You would need to get
the correctly spec'd safe to protect slides or film.  The specs are
different for paper as compared to magnetic tape for instance.  The safes
are normally rated at temperature over time and amount of shock
sustainability.

There are two fire rated safes where I work and they both hold about 1.5
cubic metres and weigh a few tonne.  We haven't put them to the test as yet.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch