- Author
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Cohn, B. M.
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Almgren, L. E.
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Curless, M.
- Title
- System for Local Assessment of the Conflagration Potential of Urban Areas.
- Coporate
- Gage-Babcock and Associates Inc., Chicago, IL
- Report
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OCD Subtask 2538A
March 1965
150 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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urban fires
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mass fires
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fire breaks
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fire protection engineering
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fire spread
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fire departments
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civil defense
- Abstract
- An empirical system was developed for local application to permit both the assessment of relative conflagration potential (by assigning ratings to urban blocks indicating their relative susceptibility ot mass fire) and the delineation of firebreaks to isolate or divide conflagration areas. The basis of the system was the application of fire protection engineering principles to evolve formulae and relative ratings for the factors involved in fire spread.