- Author
- Stanford Research Institute
- Title
- Fire Loss Control: A Research Report by the Long Range Planning Service.
- Coporate
- Stanford Research Inst., Menlo Park, CA
- Report
- Report No. 349, July 1968, 21 p.
- Keywords
- fire losses | industrial fires | fire suppression | planning | fire fighting equipment | fire insurance | textiles | industries | fire protection
- Identifiers
- estimated 1966 total tangible fire cost; estimated distribution of fire loss; direct property losses, 1980; possible effects of programs under the federal fire research and safety act of 1968; potential fire detection and automatic suppression equipment market in new construciton, 1980
- Abstract
- By 1980, without increased government-industry action, the annual tangible cost of fire in the U.S. is likely to exceed $10,000 million (up from $5300 million) including about $3000 million in direct property losses (up from $1800 million). Contributing to high fire losses will be the concentration of valuable property and the increasing use of high temperatures and pressures and hazardous materials. This report focuses on fires in industrial and commercial properties; residential, transportation, and forest fires are discussed briefly.