- Author
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Meade, W. P.
- Title
- First Pass at Computing the Cost of Fire in a Modern Society.
- Coporate
- Herndom Group, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC
- Journal
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Fire Technology,
Vol. 27,
No. 4,
341-345,
November 1991
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NIST GCR 91-592,
June 1991,
50 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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building codes
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building construction
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costs
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economic factors
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fire departments
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fire protection
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fire safety
- Abstract
- Fire deaths and injuries continue to cause a tremendous amount of human suffering in the United States. The recent drop in fire deaths in the U. S. may indicate that fire safety programs introduced in the past are having the desired effect and that sometime in the near future the U. S. will no longer experience one of the highest fire death rates in the world. This report is a preliminary attempt to detemine whether there are new fire safety challenges confronting the U. S. as it continues to adjust to the requriements of the information age, namely, instant communiction, global markets and rapid response. An attempt is also made to provide an initial quantification of each of the emerging fire safety factors in order to rank the factors and to allow calculation of the benefits to be expected from corrective programs.