Yes, to re-emphasize exactly that, firewatch and fire safety, we always had someone assigned to that task when I supervised ironworker crews, and still theres that tarp in a shaft or inaccessible place where there's welding going on above, slag and molten metal dropping down from upper floors, tarp now burning, seen it a dozen times on sites.
The value of fire watch goes a lot further when working in a building, a fitter was soldering some copper pipe in the main office of the lumber yard where I worked, established 1888, made 100 years, but that year 101st, she burnt mostly to the ground and there was absolutely no stopping it, one of the 2 worst fires I have ever seen first hand, the other was my friends farm that was intentionally set in his shop on fathers day '95. The lumber yard fire was directly caused by the fitter, late friday afternoon, bitter cold too, I punched out, he was working in the ceiling between the joists, scorched the wood and or left embers or something smoldering. You soak the area first, and start that job early in the morning, for just the same reason, so you are there to catch it if it does go up. We heard it on a scanner, I went down and watched it burn, the old carriage house turned into a pine lumber shed/stocking area, cool old building, gone, most of the main office and upper floors of the hardware store, it melted a roll of coins in the owners office, some say it was done intentionally. Funny thing was my charred time card was still pretty much intact, the next day, I was the only one who came in, everyone thought they were off, saturday, place burned down, nope, they set up phones in the mill next door, and I took all the delivery tickets, filled the orders we could and made all the deliveries. Stupidity, he should have done things a little differently that fitter, dummy burned the place down, risked a lot of firemen, and days later during the demo, 2 natural gas laterals, 2" lines were spewing gas, 2 days before anyone reported it, another disaster averted, fire & safety aint nothing to fool with..... ever.
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