- Author
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Title
- School Fires.
- Coporate
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emmitsburg, MD
- Journal
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Topical Fire Research Series,
Vol. 2,
No. 9,
1-3,
October 2001
- Distribution
- 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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schools
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fire statistics
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building fires
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arson
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injuries
- Identifiers
- 61% of school structure fires are arson; 70% of high school fires are arson; fatalities from school fires are rare, but injuries per fire are higher than those of all non-residential structure fires; leading area of fire origin is the school lavatory; school fires decrease substantially on weekends and in during the summer break