- Author
- Barry, S. F.
- Title
- Two Fatality Board and Care Facility Fire, Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center, Miami, Florida, November 11, 1995. USFA Fire Investigation Technical Report Series.
- Coporate
- TriData Corp., Arlington, VA
- Sponsor
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Report
- Report 108, 1995, 36 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM: U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), 16825 South Seton Ave., Emmitsburg, MD 21727. Telephone: 301-447-1000. Website: http://www.usfa.fema.gov
- Contract
- EMW-94-C-4423
- Keywords
- fire investigations | hotels | high rise buildings | fire spread | standpipes | decision making | fire risk
- Identifiers
- delay in reporting of fire; protection of vacant building; incident command system
- Abstract
- More than 700 firefighters operating over 100 pieces of firefighting apparatus were needed to control a fire that involved several large interconnected buildings in a crowded neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York on August 26, 1995. The complex of buildings was known as the St. George Hotel. It was the largest fire in New York City in more than twenty years, and one of the largest in the city's history.