- Author
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Chubb, M.
- Title
- Ten-Fatality Board and Care Facility Fire, Detroit, Michigan (June 2, 1992). USFA Fire Investigation Technical Report Series.
- Coporate
- TriData Corp., Arlington, VA
- Sponsor
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Report
-
Report 066
1992
58 p.
- Contract
- EMW-90-C-3338
- Keywords
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fire investigations
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board and care homes
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mental disorders
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adults
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fire fatalities
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smoking
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smoke detection
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emergency plans
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interior finishes
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egress
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fire departments
- Identifiers
- Ten-Fatality Board and Care Facility, Detroit, Michigan, June 2, 1992; kitchen trash receptacle
- Abstract
- An early morning fire in an adult board and care facility housing mentally disabled adults left ten residents dead and two seriously injured. Detroit Fire Department investigators determined that smoking materials carelessly discarded in a kitchen trash receptacle started the blaze which led to the largest loss of life in a single residential fire in the city's history.