- Author
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Title
- Fire Station Fires.
- Coporate
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emmitsburg, MD
- Journal
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Topical Fire Research Series,
Vol. 1,
No. 19,
1-3,
May 2001
- Distribution
- For more information about Topical Fire Research Series contact: Website: http://www.usfa.fema.gov/nfdc/tfrs.htm AVAILABLE FROM: U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 16825 South Seton Ave., Emmitsburg, MD 21727. Telephone: 301-447-1000. Website: http://www.usfa.fema.gov/
- Keywords
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fire departments
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fire statistics
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ignition
- Identifiers
- Fire station fires most often originate in fire departments' vehicles (44%); 37% of fires are structure fires; leading cause of the approximately 150 fire station fires each year is attributed to "electrical distribution," although "cooking" is the leading cause of structure fires; electrical wire is the leading material igniited, most often due to short circuits; too often, fire stations have no damage insurance or are underinsured