- Author
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Clarke, F. B., III
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Birky, M. M.
- Title
- Fire Safety in Dwellings and Public Buildings.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine,
Vol. 57,
No. 10,
1047-1060,
December 1981
- Report
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CIB W14/82/26 (USA),
- Keywords
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fire safety
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residential buildings
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public buildings
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smoke
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toxic products
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combustion products
- Identifiers
- dwellings
- Abstract
- Approximately 85% of all fire fatalities in the United States occurred in buildings. In most of these the building holds the smoke and toxic combustion products from a fire.