- Author
- Lerup, L.
- Title
- People in Fires: A Manual for Mapping.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBS GCR 77-106, 1977, 47 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- GRANT-59016
- Keywords
- building fires | case histories | decision making | escape | fire behavior | human factors engineering | mapping | methodology | reactions | stress
- Abstract
- Manual provides step instructions for the investigation, data gathering and organization, and graphic mapping procedures involved in graphically presenting the behavior patterns of fire development and persons exposed to fire in a building. The manual is intended to be used in conjuction with NBS-GCR-76-73, "Mapping of Recurrent Behavior Patterns in Institutional Buildings under Fire: Ten Case Studies of Nursing Facilities", also prepared by Lars Lerup. The use of the mapping approach to fire reporting can provide better identification of an insight into both the development of fire and the reactions of persons to it.