- Author
- Bryan, J. L. | Milke, J. A.
- Title
- Examination and Analysis of the Dynamics of the Human Behavior in the Fire Incident at the Wilson Health Care Center on June 25, 1980.
- Coporate
- Maryland Univ., College Park
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBS GCR 80-277, July 31, 1980, 50 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- GRANT-79014
- Keywords
- fire departments | fire extinguishers | fire investigations | mattresses | nursing homes | nursing staff | room fires | sprinkler systems
- Abstract
- A series of three fires occurred in the Wilson Health Care Center, 301 Russell Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland in the early morning hours of June 25, 1980. The fires were all of undetermined, suspicious origin and all occurred in patient room 239, located on the second floor of the southwest wing. The Wilson Health Care Center is a portion of the Asbury Methodist Home Complex. The building of fire resistive construction was initially constructed in 1973 and the southwest wing involved in these fire incidents was constructed in 1980. The southwest wing is protected with combination smoke detectors and door closers on the patient room doors, wet pipe sprinkler system (7) class III standpipe system (11) smoke barrier doors in the corridors and extinguishers distributed according to standard partice.