I would like to respond to Bob Parkin's letter in the July issue of the journal. There are many aspects of this letter which I need to respond to, but the most annoying part of this letter is the implication that I need to see dead bodies to be a competent chartered fire safety engineer, so by implication only fire officers can be fire safety engineers. The very beginning of the letter gets life safety and property protection muddled up, because Mr Parkin talks about the mill burning down. I also find it difficult to believe that anyone who interprets the removal of the requirement for door closers in dwelling houses in Approved Document B as 'blowing a hole in the whole concept of passive fire safety' has completely missed the point of passive fire protection.
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