Sprinkler testing at Kemano

Kemano Village in northern British Columbia was a company town owned by Alcan Smelters and Chemicals Ltd. This remote village had recently been closed as a result of restructuring power operations. Alcan donated more than 60 houses in the village to the provincial government's fire services for the purposes of training firefighters and fire investigators and conducting fire studies. The project was known as the Kemano Public Safety Initiative (KPSI). KPSI provided a unique opportunity to conduct fire experiments in residential dwellings. At Kemano, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and an industry partnercompleted a series of fire experiments in a residential dwelling to better understand performance issues relating to cross-linked-polyethylene (PEX-a) pipe sprinkler systems. This was done using fire scenarios typical to those found in residential fires.Kemano Village, au nord de la Colombie-Britannique, \ue9tait une ville de compagnie ayant appartenu \ue0 l?origine \ue0 la Alcan Smelters and Chemicals. Ce village \ue9loign\ue9 a r\ue9cemment \ue9t\ue9 abandonn\ue9 en cons\ue9quence d?une restructuration des activit\ue9s li\ue9es \ue0 la production d?\ue9nergie. Alcan a ainsi fait don de plus de 60 maisons du village aux services d?incendie de la province, qui les utiliseront pour former les pompiers et les enqu\ueateurs sur les incendies et pour r\ue9aliser des \ue9tudes connexes. Ce projet a \ue9t\ue9 baptis\ue9 \uab Kemano Public Safety Initiative \ubb (KPSI). Le KPSI a fourni une occasion unique de diriger ainsi cinq (5) incendies exp\ue9rimentaux sur des habitations r\ue9sidentielles. \uc0 Kemano Village, le Conseil national de recherches du Canada (CNRC) et un partenaire de l?industrie on r\ue9alis\ue9 une s\ue9rie d?incendies exp\ue9rimentaux dans un logement, dans le but de mieux comprendre les probl\ue8mes de performance li\ue9s aux syst\ue8mes de gicleurs \ue0 tuyaux en poly\ue9thyl\ue8ne r\ue9ticul\ue9. \uc0 cette fin, on a utilis\ue9 des sc\ue9narios d?incendie r\ue9sidentiel types.Peer reviewed: NoNRC publication: Ye