[ST] About the lack of radiant heat in the lobby

[Carsten Turner]

Jan, I understand where you're coming from. I spent years working as an 
EMT, and have seen plenty of examples of human stupidity at work. I am 
thankful for your concern, but I think your fears are unfounded in this 
instance.

Given that Arisia has been using propane-fired heaters of this kind for 
years without issue, I think the benefit of having heat vastly 
overrides any danger inherent in a heating device. The big safety 
factor at work during load-in/out is that these will be used with a lot 
of de-facto supervision. Load-in/out is typically freaking cold (which 
easily explains a chronic dearth of volunteers,) and if anything, 
people will pay A Lot Of Attention To The Heat Source (because everyone 
wants to get warm,) rather than forgetting that we have a few dragons 
placed in strategic (and well populated) locations. Arisia runs a far 
greater risk of volunteers sustaining frostbite injuries than burning 
themselves, by a factor of "too much."

Note that I won't be involved with logistics this year, but these are 
just my personal observations from past experience. YMMV.

Your Evil Overlord,
-=>Carsten:-)

On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:43 PM, fibrowitch . wrote:

> Look guys let me put my safety hat on for a second.  To quote "Crash"  
> space heaters are frigging dangerous.
>
*snip*