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[–] Plastic_Ramses 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its not so they stop from catching fire, its so they dont instantly go up in flames, allowing the people inside to hopefully escape.

[–] cm0002 21 points 10 months ago

This, everyone should go lookup those fire department videos where they demonstrate furniture catching fire with and without flame retardant. The ones without are scary AF