- Author
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Title
- Clothes Dryer Fires in Residential Buildings.
- Coporate
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Journal
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Topical Fire Research Series,
Vol. 7,
No. 1,
January 2007
- Keywords
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clothes dryers
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residential buildings
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building fires
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fire statistics
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death
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injuries
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NFIRS
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ignition
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fire spread
|
venting
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costs
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maintenance
- Identifiers
- loss measures for clothes dryer fires in buildings [all fires, 3-year average (2002-2004)]; time of alarm, residential building clothes dryer fires 2002-2004; month of occurrence, residential building clothes dryer fires 2002-2004; factors contributing to ignition, residential building clothes dryer fires 2002-2004; leading items first ignited, residential building clothes dryer fires 2002-2004; dollar loss per clothes dryer fire by fire spread [residential buildings, 3-year average (2002-2004)]