The fire triangle is critical to fire fighting and fire investigation. Fire professionals must understand what are needs to burn and how eliminating one leg of the fire triangle can extinguish are. Why do fire fighters use water to put out a fire? What leg of the fire triangle are they eliminating?
Just like a candle flame can leave a soot pattern on a ceramic tile, fire investigators look for these types of patterns on walls, furniture, and other parts of structures to help them determine the point of origin of the fire, or the location where the fire started. Knowing where are started helps investigators understand how it was caused.
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