Dec. 24, 2025
Merry Christmas everyone!
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I would like to take this opportunity to wish you Merry Christmas, a great time with your families, a bit of rest and time to reflect, and an awesome 2026 to come!
If you are desperate for fire science on Christmas Eve, check out the OFR report on open car park fires, which we were able to contribute to: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-open-sided-car-parks
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Hello everybody, welcome to the Fire Science Show.
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It's Christmas Eve.
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The Santa has not brought you any fire science today.
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I am here just to say I would love to wish you Merry Christmas and a great time with your families.
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Whether you are celebrating Christmas or not, I hope this is a time of joy and happiness for you.
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This has been some really difficult years for me professionally.
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It was probably the most challenging one ever.
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I found it the hard way that if you do a good job and you do a lot of it, you get awarded with even more.
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And kind of went overboard with that.
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So things are under control now.
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But gosh, this year was really, really tough.
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I hope the next years are enjoyable, but perhaps some less stressful than this one.
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I I wish that uh for you you also have a time for reflection and and thinking about what the next years should be, and I hope that you are in control to make them like uh you want them to be.
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I would like to thank you so much for being a part of the Fire Science channel.
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It's the best thing I'm actually doing this podcast wherever I travel, wherever I go.
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I meet fantastic people who tell me they're big fans of the podcast, and we discuss and we talk, and uh they seem to be inspired, moved, they seem to learn something from the podcast.
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They make me feel that the work that I am doing.
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It's important for community at large, for a broader group of fire safety engineers.
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And I am absolutely thrilled to have an impact like this on our discipline.
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It's only thanks to the fantastic guests that come here and are willing to share their uh their knowledge with me, their expertise with me and with you along the way.
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But uh, if you have not been listening, there would be no big point of making this show.
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So I am greatly greatly thankful for you after sticking up with the Fire Science show after so many years, after so many episodes.
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I would also like to express my highest gratitude to OFR consultants for being a partner for this show.
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Uh, for I have three years.
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This is incredible, three years of of partnership with OFR.
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Um next week we will celebrate the three years, and uh it's a good moment to revisit the uh episode.
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I believe it was episode 83 with Mark Spearpoint and Steve Wynne about why does consultancy invest in science?
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Because that that will tell you exactly why OFR and Fire Science show are such a great match to each other.
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And I hope we will move to more and more years of partnership with OFR.
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Actually, if you are desperate for fire science, there's one thing that Santa brought us for uh Christmas, and that's the report on open carpet fires, uh, structural resilience, fire spreading car parks, Monte Carlo modeling of fire spreading car parks.
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We have been at ITB a part of this report by modeling the potential for fire spread uh a bit from the Hibbled Bacel, and then uh OFR took it much, much further created a Monte Carlo simulator to actually simulate whether your fire can take the whole car park or not.
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It's a very interesting grid.
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I'll drop it in the show notes.
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So if you are desperate for fire science, there is still some fire science for you.
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I deliver it even what I didn't intend to.
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Uh I'm I'm happy that well, it is great that it's published.
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It's been uh one of the major projects this year that accounted for my stress.
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So I'm really glad it's out there.
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Anyway, that would be it for uh today's episode.
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I'm not even spinning an intro.
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I just wanted to say that I appreciate you and that I wish you some really good time in the next days.
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Um next week, I think it's New Year's Eve, but uh New Year's Eve, I think I will release a podcast episode, and that's gonna be something that some resistance this year, and perhaps some of the biggest fires or the the biggest fire this year.
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So um you are welcome to join me in that conversation next week, and in the new year, I am back with fire science episodes for you.
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A lot has been prepared, and lots of guests had been invited, some are already recorded and editing.
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So we are on a good track to start the next year with a strong opener.
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That's it for today.
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Merry Christmas.
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Happy New Year, everyone.
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Cheers.
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Bye.
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