- Author
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DeCicco, P. R.
- Title
- Fire Containment in High Risk Urban Communities.
- Coporate
- Polytechnic Inst. of New York, Brooklyn
- Book or Conf
- International Conference on Flammability. INTERFLAM '85. Conference Workbook. March 26-28, 1985,
Guildford, England,
170-177 p.,
1985
- Keywords
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urban fires
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residential buildings
- Abstract
- The extremely serious proportions of both the incidence and consequences of fire in a number of New York City's older, residential communities prompted the Fire Department and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to commission a study directed to enhancement of life safety in the highly vulnerable, row-frame residential type of building. The 10-year effort undertaken by the Fire Research Center of the Polytechnic Institute of New York has included an intensive review of fire experience in high risk neighborhoods, two series of full-scale fire tests, and design, installation and monitoring of selected fire protection measures in 259, occupied, row-frame residential buildings. The investigation has documented the nature of "fast fires"; demonstrated necessary design features of fire barriers, early warning devices and limited sprinkler systems; and has established benefit-to-cost relationships of these fire protection measures.