- Author
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Chubb, M.
- Title
- Eight-Fatality Row House Fire, Chester, Pennsylvania: Lessons Learned From Residential Fires With Five or More Fatalities (December 5, 1992. USFA Fire Investigation Technical Report Series.
- Coporate
- TriData Corp., Arlington, VA
- Sponsor
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Report
-
Report 067
1992
52 p.
- Contract
- EMW-90-C-3338
- Keywords
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fire investigations
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residential buildings
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fire fatalities
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bedrooms
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children
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smoke detection
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interior finishes
- Identifiers
- Eight-Fatality Row House Fire, Chester, Pennsylvania, December 5, 1992; fire separation; risk factors
- Abstract
- Multiple fatality residential fires, especially those which claim the lives of children, have a devastating effect on family members and friends left behind. The tremendous impacts of these fires on a community are powerful stimuli for improving fire safety and reinforcing many of the hard-learned lessons of the past. During 1992, the United States Fire Administration investigated reports of nine residential fires, each of which claimed the lives of five or more individuals. All of these fires involved children; some claimed entire families.