On 25 Feb 2004 at 10:43, Nikki Lee wrote:
> Dear Friends:
> Can anybody explain to me why infant and child clothing has to be treated
> with flame retardant chemicals in the first place?
> If the baby was in a burning house, the chemicals wouldn't save a life.
But they would if the baby was near a fire or candle or other hot
object.
We recently had a small fire in a room upstairs. The children had
covered a lamp with pink dress-up clothes to make the room
beautifully lit... Next thing they went downstairs to do do some
crafts. About 15 minutes later the smoke alert went off. We had a
fire. We managed to extiniguish it by ourselves. It was remarkable
that the dressing up clothes had burned, but a woolen sit-cushion
wasn't harmed at all and the cotton curtains and bed-cover were only
slightly affected.
--
Heleen Hayes
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hhayeshttp://www.borstvoedingsagenda.nl
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