“FIRE PREVENTION IS THE BEST INSURANCE”
We all know that
Insurance is an arrangement by which a Company or the State undertakes to
provide a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness or even
death in return of payment of a specified premium. Now the term has become
common in our life. Today we pay lot of money as premium for the insurance of
various valuable things from car to gold, from home to life and for what not!
Similarly the
industries and various other
organizations now opt for Fire Insurance Policy for the entire movable and the
immovable property located at particular premises and is paying a good amount
of money as ‘premium’. There are various types of Fire Insurance coverage but above
all the ‘FIRE PREVENTION INSURANCE POLICY’
is the best and in this policy none is to pay any premium but some care and
attention. Fire is such a thing that has the ability to make us warm in our
cozy home in the chilled weather and at the same time has the ability to make
us homeless within a few seconds. FIRE is one of our basic tools in everyday
life. We can hardly conceive a life without fire. We use it from cooking up of different
palatable dishes to the most complicated processes like internal combustion and
electro-generation. FIRE is used in many more ways most scientifically from
home to the industry, from the office to the restaurants, from the laboratory
to the space research centers in some way or the other. Fuels such as coal, natural gas or oil is burnt
with the help of fire to get the source of energy or to produce steam that
builds pressure and forces to turn the turbine, creating energy that supplies
electricity. Fire is the root of all these processes. In some situation use of
FIRE becomes the only practical solution to a problem but in others it is the
worst possible alternative and poses an unacceptable threat of escape and
destruction.
So to eradicate fire hazard and to
get the maximum possible benefits from this FIRE PREVENTION INSURANCE we must all learn to cultivate fire safety
awareness everywhere. A scintillation of
fire from any corner can turn thousands years of endeavour and civilization
into ashes in a very short spell of time. Detecting a fire, as
early as possible after it starts, is the most crucial step in protection from
fire hazards. The three principal indicators of a fire are: (i) smoke, (ii)
heat, and (iii) flame. The success of early detection of a fire lies in
recognizing one or more of these indicators of a fire. Detection can be planned
through (i) self-help by every person by being vigilant around him or her, (ii)
a system of alert volunteers for a specific place like a forest or a coal
go-downs or a crowded place like circus or a religious or social congregation,
and (iii) automatic detectors or
sensors such as heat sensors or flame detectors or smoke detectors in multi-storeyed buildings, markets, cinema halls, hotels, factories, offices or computer centres because no place is immune to fire and every person has to be always alert to the possibility of a fire hazard.
sensors such as heat sensors or flame detectors or smoke detectors in multi-storeyed buildings, markets, cinema halls, hotels, factories, offices or computer centres because no place is immune to fire and every person has to be always alert to the possibility of a fire hazard.
Gone are those when in case of any
fire hazard the fire team had to locate the ponds and other water sources to
combat with fire struggling inhumanely. Now for the advanced technology, they
have totally improved their infrastructure and are using various tenders like Air
Field Crash Tenders, Foam Tenders, Dry Chemical Power Tenders and many other extinguishing
agents to combat with fire. Presently the high skilled professionals are fighting
with fire most scientifically everywhere from the plant and industries, to the
sky kissing buildings or in any remote corners of any localities to save the
most valuable lives and properties without any caste and creed.
