Roughly 40 percent of all industrial property loss in the United States comes from fire,and fire is the leading cause of commercial property damage. For insurance companies, understanding how fires spread can help save their industrial clients from massive property and commerce interruption losses, and ultimately saving both insurer and insured millions of dollars. Businesses with large warehouses are at specific risk,because as storage warehouses get bigger, providing adequate protection using traditional ceiling-mounted sprinkler systems is fitting more challenging.
Source: phys.org