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Author
Purser, D. A. | Kuipers, M.
Title
Interactions Between Buildings, Fires and Occupant Behavior Using a Relational Database Created From Incident Investigations and Interviews.
Coporate
Building Research Establishment, Garston, England Writewell Research
Book or Conf
Human Behavior in Fire: Public Fire Safety - Professionals in Partnership. International Symposium, 3rd. Proceedings. September 1-3, 2004, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Belfast, N. Ireland, 443-456 p., 2004
Keywords
human behavior | fire safety | decision making | occupants | building fires | human response | room fires | electrical fires | fire spread | smoke spread | smoke detectors | residential buildings
Identifiers
building and building system; fuel and fire development; outline of database showing main data tables and the data fields included in them; room of origin: houses and flats; causes of fire; efficacy of smoke detectors in dwelling fires; location of people at the time of discovery of fire; activities before the fire and how alerted to the fire