- Author
- Walton, W. D. | Putorti, A. D., Jr. | Twilley, W. H. | Albers, J. C.
- Title
- Santa Ana Fire Department Experiments at South Bristol Street.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NISTIR 5776, February 1996, 218 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- bedrooms | fire tests | furniture | home fires | single family dwellings | smoke detectors | sprinklers | temperature measurements | experiments | oxygen concentration | sprinkler activation
- Abstract
- A series of fire experiments were conducted in vacant single family dwellings on South Bristol Street in Santa Ana, California. Fire experiments were conducted in bedrooms and living rooms. Fuels consisted of either home furnishings or a propane burner. Fire phenomena measured included: temperatures within various rooms, wall jet velocity, fuel mass during burning, heat flux smoke detector activation time, sprinkler activation time, oxygen concentration, and time to full room involvement.