- Author
- Pryor, A. J. | Yuill, C. H.
- Title
- Mass Fire Life Hazard. Final Report.
- Coporate
- Southwest Research Inst., San Antonio, TX
- Sponsor
- Office of Civil Defense, Washington, DC Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, San Francisco, CA
- Report
- NRDL TRC-63; Final Report; Work Unit 2537A, September 1966, 193 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- N228-62479-68665
- Keywords
- mass fires | life hazards | survival | combustion products | shelters (fallout) | fire hazards | toxicity | survival
- Abstract
- A program was undertaken to define the life hazard in a mass fire environment resulting from nuclear attack. The nature of casualties and hazards in peacetime and wartime fires was reviewed, and experimental efforts to simulate mass fire situations were studied. This state-of-knowledge review revealed a number of areas in need of further definition regarding the true mass fire life hazard. These areas have been specified and limited experimental studies conducted in two of them in order to define their significance with respect to the overall mass fire life hazard.