- Author
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Callery, J. F.
- Title
- Building Evaluation for Manual Suppression.
- Coporate
- Worcester Polytechnic Inst., MA
- Report
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Thesis
May 1996
115 p.
- Keywords
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fire suppression
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evaluation
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effectiveness
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fire fighting
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fire departments
- Identifiers
- impact of manual suppression; evaluated factors; output value; evaluation method; illustrative example of evaluation method
- Abstract
- Recent improvements in equipment used by firefighters has increased the value of manual suppression in buildings. However, because there is no evaluaiton method available, the effectiveness manual suppression can not be incorporated into a fire safety analysis of a building. This following thesis develops a method for evaluating manual suppression in buildings. The evaluation is done through an analysis of the paths through a builidng firefighters will use to attack a fire. The analysis considers the building, fire, and fire department factors influencing progress towards the fire. The fire attack path analysis yields a value relating the relative difficulty of a path.