- Author
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National Fire Protection Association
- Title
- Fire Safety in High-Rise Buildings. NFPA Ready Reference.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Report
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RRHIRISE03,
2003,
268 p.
- Keywords
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high rise buildings
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fire safety
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occupants
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fire protection
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fire statistics
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stairways
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fire departments
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human factors engineering
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evacuation
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education
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building collapse
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World Trade Center
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communication networks
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survivability
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hotels
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regulations
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case histories
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arson
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colleges
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students
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cigarettes
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smoking
- Identifiers
- overview and statistics; case studies and incidents
- Abstract
- This substantive overview provides you with comprehensive subject-specific data, case histories, and related background on the unique fire safety challenges of high-rise buildings. Facilities managers, building officials, fire inspectors, and fire and life safety educators will benefit from valuable targeted facts and figures from a variety of respected industry sources, including: (*) Statistical analysis of fires in high-rise occupancies; (*) Fire Protection Handbook chapter "Occupancies in Special Structures and High-Rise Buildings" ; (*) Case histories of high-rise fires from FireWatch (NFPA Journal®); (*) Selected NFPA Journal articles and (*) Fire investigation reports.