Talk:Flashover

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The current entry for flashover seems pretty technical for the average Wikipedia reader and may be biased towards a certain school of thought, since it seems to incorporate some information that isn't in the upper-level fire dynamics book I'm looking at. Also, the fire service information seems to contain a local bias. --catseyes 23:44, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Here is a link to an excellent article on the history and usage of the term flashover that seems to contradict what is currently here: http://www.firetactics.com/FLASHOVER%20-%20FIREFIGHTERS%20NIGHTMARE.pdf. As you can see, many of the terms that are currently in the wiki are listed as "NOT scientifically approved or referenced". Another article on the same site addresses the specific material that's posted on this wiki and describes it as "rather inappropriate definitions of various rapid fire phenomena, as used by the Swedish Fire Service in the 1980s, some of which may have found their way into various fire service training texts." --catseyes 23:55, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Flashovers seems be a bit shore a backdraft is just a form of a flash over my brother is a LT in an FD. He has been in 2 flashovers.

One cause some pretty nasty burns as he was running out the other he crushed his back because he was forced to jump out of a 3rd floor window. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.109.127.19 (talk) 02:36, 4 November 2007 (UTC)