- Author
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Small, K.
- Title
- Trade-Offs Between Automatic Sprinklers and Manual Fire Suppression Facilities.
- Journal
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Fire Engineers Journal,
Vol. 60,
No. 204,
30-34,
January 2000
- Keywords
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sprinklers
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fire suppression
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fire fighting
|
effectiveness
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fire statistics
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costs
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fire departments
- Identifiers
- manual firefighting facilities; incidents involving different firefighting systems (1994-1995); incidents in premises fitted with automatic water sprinklers (1994-1995); incidents in premises not fitted with fire suppression systems (1994-1995); method of firefighting by brigade; numer of pumping appliances attending; overall cost of fires in England and Wales (1993); cost of providing fire protection in new construction; expenditure for fire protection: average % of GDP (1993-1995)