- Author
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Brennan, P.
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Thomas, I.
- Title
- Predicting Evacuation Response and Fire Fatalities.
- Coporate
- Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
- Book or Conf
- Human Behavior in Fire: Understanding Human Behavior for Better Fire Safety Design. International Symposium, 2nd. Proceedings. March 26-28, 2001,
Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England,
Boston, MA,
321-332 p.,
2001
- Keywords
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human behavior
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fire safety
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fire fatalities
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evacuation
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human response
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apartments
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time lag
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egress
- Identifiers
- fatalities and attempted evacuation (excluding suicides and unknowns); evacuation from the room or apartment of fire origin; evacuation from areas other than that of fire origin; delay in starting evacuation as a factor in fatality; nature of fatalities in egress paths; multiple fatalities; fires with five or move civilian fatalities: origin of occupants; role of staff; predicting evacuation and fatalities