FIRE AS IMPORTANT FACTOR WITH IMPACT ON FIREMAN ACTIVITY

The main purpose of this article is to demonstrate the possible extensive consequences in the area of safety, as well as material damages caused due to a fire, which has arisen as a result of insufficient preventive measures. The second task is to emphasise an economical efficiency of the fire prevention in comparison to the direct or indirect damages that are caused due to the fire and in this way to point out an importance of the fire prevention. The first part of this paper describes four basic phases of the fire; together with the selected risk factors occurring during the fire, as well as it presents a classification of fires. The second part of this article describes a real example of the concrete fire of a multi-functional public hall. This fire incident became in a Slovak city recently. The hall was specified for organising of various cultural and sporting events in an aquapark-relaxation-land and due to the fire it was fully destroyed. The building damages were enormous. The final part of this article explains causes of this fire.