- Author
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Demers, D. P.
- Title
- Twenty Five Die in Nursing Home.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Journal
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Fire Journal, Vol. 75, No. 1, 30-35, January 1981 <b>AND</b> Fire Command, Vol. 48, No. 3, March 1981,
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Keywords
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investigations
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deaths
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nursing homes
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patients
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fire departments
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elderly persons
- Identifiers
- nursing facility; fire resistive building
- Abstract
- On July 14, 1980, at approximately 9:30 pm, a fire in the Extendicare Skilled Nursing Facility in Mississauga, Ontario, resulted in the deaths of 25 patients, most of then elderly. The area of origin of the accidental fire was a patient room on the top floor of the three-story, fire-resistive building.