- Author
- Geneva Association
- Title
- World Fire Statistics.
- Coporate
- Geneva Assoc., CH-1208 Geneva
- Journal
- Geneva Association Information Newsletter, No. 20,
- Report
- Bulletin 20, October 2004, 10 p.
- Keywords
- fire statistics | fire losses | death | fire fighting | fire insurance | fire protection | costs | fire safety
- Identifiers
- direct fire losses; indirect fire losses; population comparison for fire deaths; UN scheme endorsed; European parliament and fire costs; European Fire Safety Action Program; conferences organised and/or sponsored by the Geneva Association; progress on European fire statistics
- Abstract
- Most of the figures published in this Bulletin have been adjusted to as internationally comparable a basis as possible. The Centre believes that, while they are the best available in their field, they are still far from exact, and is therefore interested in any initiative to improve the availability and comparability of national fire statistics. The World Fire Statistics Centre is directly involved in one such effort, the "Augsburg 2000" project to develop a European database of fire statistics, and is near completion of its first report. Now two other initiatives have appeared. The first is a project by a group of fire safety experts under Swedish leadership and backed by the European Commission, to identify common problems arising throughout Europe in the handling of fire and other incidents, including statistics, on which a first report has already been issued. Now has come an initiative by a working group of heritage experts to develop better and more consistent statistics of fires in historic European buildings. Both these efforts may help to add impetus to the quest for improved European fire statistics generally.