What wind speeds are considered for the consequences of thermal radiation from the flame pillar?
The flame pillar from a burning warehouse becomes tilted in a high wind and the thermal radiation flux falling on downwind objects increases. Under these conditions the risk of the fire spreading to an adjacent warehouse or igniting a nearby diesel or LPG tank increases. A safety report should therefore determine the consequences of a warehouse fire in a high wind, otherwise the accident analysis may be deemed optimistic – see Table 5.
