- Author
- Clarke, F. B., III | Birky, M. M.
- Title
- Fire Safety in Dwellings and Public Buildings.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. 57, No. 10, 1047-1060, December 1981
- Report
- CIB W14/82/26 (USA),
- Keywords
- fire safety | residential buildings | public buildings | smoke | toxic products | 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.