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- From: alice_bertelson@pts.mot.com (ALICE BERTELSON X2572 P7331)
- Subject: fire retardent sleepwear
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.152823.9711@pts1.pts.mot.com>
- Followup-To: flameretardent sleepwear
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:28:23 GMT
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- In article 3208@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM, chrisw@chopin.FtCollins.NCR.com (Chris Whitley) writes:
- >Exactly why is it important that children's sleepwear be
- >flame retardant? I just don't get it. Is it that
- >if there is a fire in your home at night and you have to
- >hold the child and run through the flames to safety, you'll
- >be glad the sleepwear is flame retardant? (This can't be
- >right!) Is it the protection, then, for when they are _not_
- >sleeping? Maybe for when they get up in the morning and
- >are hanging out by the stove while Dad frys bacon? If this
- >is the case, then it would make more sense that non-sleepwear
- >be flame retardant, as it is worn much more often when the
- >child is exposed to potentially flammable situations. I just
- >don't get it.
-
- This is my response (I put int in the gruop too, as I
- seem to have trouble getting to individual email accounts
-
- Hi Chris
-
- The whole basis of this is actually that IF for some unfortunate
- reason) your child's clothing (sleepwear) catches on fire it will
- merely melt and not burst into flames - this is suposed to protect
- the child from serious injury from clothing being on fire (mind you
- I can`t imagine it would be too pleasant to have my clothing melted
- onto me body either!!)
-
- Personally I NEVER put my children (4YO boy Matthew and 16 mth girl
- Melanie) in these flame retardent stuff - They sweat like pigs!!
- get awful heat rashes and are miserable... so I always have them in
- cotton - My hubby is a fireman too, so I have a high confidence
- level there!!
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