Denzel Washington on screen and stage. Denzel Washington is an American actor who made his feature film debut in Carbon Copy (1981).[1] In 1982, Washington made his first appearance in the medical drama St. Elsewhere as Dr. Philip Chandler.
Report Abuse. Sprinklers do not detect smoke. Some operate by a fuse that melts, from the heat of a fire, to release water, others operate by a sudden drop in water or air pressure in the pipe which is controlled by a alarm system, when activated.
Distribution pipes send water to the fire sprinkler heads using. a water source to maintain and increase water pressure according to design criteria. Modern systems can detect a fire condition and discharge water. quickly, before a fire grows to a fatal or catastrophic size, reducing fire deaths by nearly 100 percent.