- Author
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Richardson, L. R.
- Title
- What Fire Statistics Tell Us About Our Fire and Building Codes for Housing and Small Buildings and Fire Risk for Occupants of those Structures.
- Coporate
- Forintek Canada Corp., Sainte-Foy, Canada
- Journal
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Fire and Materials,
Vol. 25,
No. 6,
255-271,
November/December 2001
- Keywords
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fire statistics
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fire codes
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building codes
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housing
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fire risk
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occupants
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fire losses
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home fires
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residential buildings
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building construction
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fire spread
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heating
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electrical equipment
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interior finishes
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insulation
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roofs
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mobile homes
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smoke detectors
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fire alarm systems
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sprinkler systems
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arson
- Identifiers
- fire losses in Canada and the United States; Canadian fire losses in 1979, by property classification; NFPA survey estimates of fires and property losses in the United States in 1999; NFPA survey estimates of structures fires in United States in 1999; home fires in the United States in 1996, by property type; comparison of US and Canadian residential fires statistics for 1996; sources of ignition in reporteda residential fires in the United States in 1996--percent of total; NFPA estimates 1993-1997 annual averages}.rst items/materials ignited in home fires (in decreasing order of deaths per 100 fires); 1980 and 1995 home heating fires in the United States, by type of equipment