- Author
- Pryor, A. J. | Fear, F. A. | Wheeler, R. J.
- Title
- Mass Fire Life Hazard. Experimental Study of the Life Hazard of Combustion Products in Structural Fires. Final Report.
- Coporate
- Southwest Research Inst., San Antonio, TX
- Sponsor
- Office of Civil Defense, Washington, DC Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, San Francisco, CA
- Report
- Final Report; Work Unit 2537A, March 1968, 70 p.
- Contract
- N00228-67-CO-838
- Keywords
- mass fires | life hazards | combustion products | animals | exposure | temperature | oxygen | carbon monoxide | carbon dioxide | fire hazards | toxicity | survival
- Identifiers
- mice
- Abstract
- In a previous study, the possibility of synergism among the elements found within the combustion products in a mass fire environment resulting from nuclear attack was identified. An experimental program was undertaken to further define the life hazard in a mass fire environment resulting from exposure to these combustion products. Groups of ten animals were exposed to various levels of four variables (temperature, oxygen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide) individually and in combinations of two and three variables. The data from these tests and the results of the histopathological studies were then projected in an effort to define the significance of human exposure to combustion products as found within the mass fire environment.