Fire is a friend and enemy of man

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Fire in everyday life is a flame that accompanies the process of burning of a substance with simultaneous release of heat. Why is it believed that fire is a friend and enemy of man. Is fire a friend or an enemy of man?

Fire is a friend of man

In the period of primitive existence of mankind there was a time when people did not know fire at all. For the first time man met with fire in a fire that arose from lightning or red-hot lava erupted from volcanoes.

Suchfire was perceived by primitive man as a supernatural force, causing him a sense of fear. Fire as a consequence of red-hot lava

With the development of mankind, our ancestors learned to make fire by the simplest means - by rubbing one wooden object against another or by shooting sparks when hitting a stone against a stone.

The obtained fire was constantly maintained in continuously burning fires, beams, and smokes. Using fire, people learned to cook food, to heat themselves, to use it for defense against attack of predatory animals. So fire became a friend of man.

Fire is a great power

Gradually, man learned to control fire - to build kitchen hearths, ovens, to make lighting lamps, lanterns. Millennia have passed. Now fire is used both in the home and in industry. Modern man intelligently uses fire.

In skillful hands, fire is a great power. But, unfortunately, in our lives there are often cases when due to ineptitude or carelessness in handling fire there are fires and in a short time burned huge material values - forests, industrial plants, hospitals, schools, houses, livestock, bread and other wealth created by the labor of people.

Fire is the enemy of man

Fires in most cases arise due to failure to observe elementary rules of fire safety in the home and workplace due to negligence or ignorance of these rules. Then fire becomes the enemy of man. Fire as a consequence of non-observance of fire safety rules

Causes of fires

The most common causes of fires are careless handling of fire, smoking, children playing with fire.

• Flammable objects (tablecloths, curtains, paper, wood waste, hay, dry grass, etc.) can catch fire from an unlit match.
• If a match is carelessly lit, the flying head can ignite clothing, bedding and other combustible materials and cause a fire.
• Careless handling of a burning candle can lead to serious consequences.

In the Novgorod chronicles for 1509 there is such a record:

"At the first hour of the day at matins in the week there was a big fire. It caught fire in Slavkina Street at Loginova's wife Ekaterina's cage from a candle and the whole trading side was burned, many chambers fell down, and lives were burned without number. Never in Veliky Novgorod such a fire had not happened".

The chronicle further tells that many Novgorodians, fleeing from the fire, together with their property wanted to take refuge in the Arbuzovsky Garden on Nikitinskaya Street. A strong wind threw the fire into the garden, and the garden went up in flames.

In the fire 3315 people died, and, in addition, many drowned in the Volkhov. The penny candle of Ekaterina Loginova cost the citizens of Novgorod not only several million rubles, but also thousands of human lives. A candle is a common cause of fire

Now there are no such large fires from improper use of candles. However, there are still many fires for this reason. Therefore, special care must be taken when using candles.

You can not strengthen the candle with melted wax on the table, board, on the window sill or chair, because, burning up, it can fall and cause a fire. Using candles, it is necessary to use low metal candlesticks or strengthen candles on a non-combustible base.

It is very dangerous to go with a burning candle in the attic, storerooms, barns, as the candle can accidentally fall out of your hands and ignite cobwebs, paper, straw or hay and cause a fire.

• Do not smoke in rooms where work is done with flammable liquids, in carpentry workshops, in warehouses, garages, in breadbaskets, and in housing conditions - in attics, barns, etc.
• It is not uncommon for young children to become the perpetrators of fires and die in the process.
• Children should be forbidden to use fire on their own, and matches should be kept out of reach so that they cannot find them.

Older children should be explained what to do in order to prevent such a disaster. These are:

• not to play with matches, not to light them themselves and not to let other children do it;
• do not play with electrical appliances, do not plug them into the network, left unattended plugged into the network device can lead to fire;
• do not melt the stove, do not light gas in the stove;
• do not make fires in the absence of elders.

Fire safety rules should be observed when making fires

If they have younger brothers and sisters:

• Do not leave them unattended,
• keep them away from a burning stove,
• do not allow them to play with matches, electric heating and lighting devices.

So older children will help adults to organize a reasonable rest and leisure time of younger children. If reasonable and competent handling of fire is observed, it can only become a friend of man.