Cable fires in power station

The occurrence of a runaway cable fire at La Spezia, Italy, first alerted power-station operators to the dramatic risks inherent in p.v.c.-cable installations. The amount of research and development triggered off by that fire has been considerable throughout the world. Because of that r. & d., it is now hoped that the production of new p.v.c. compounds to reduce fire propagation and the introduction of smoke control and the specialist methods of detecting and fighting cable fires will signal an end to such incidents