- Author
- 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
- Fire and Materials, Vol. 25, No. 6, 255-271, November/December 2001
- Keywords
- fire statistics | fire codes | building codes | housing | fire risk | occupants | fire losses | home fires | residential buildings | building construction | fire spread | heating | electrical equipment | interior finishes | insulation | roofs | mobile homes | smoke detectors | fire alarm systems | sprinkler systems | 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