- Author
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Bowallius, L.
- Title
- Bostadsbrand. [Residential Fire.]
- Coporate
- National Defence Research Inst., Stockholm, Sweden
- Report
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FOA Report E10003-1.2,
June 1988,
68 p.
- Keywords
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residential buildings
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fire losses
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rescue operations
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fire spread
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fire statistics
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effectiveness
- Abstract
- The report is a presentation of a study of about 1000 residential fires and operations of rescue units. The purpose has been to illustrate the correlation between the environment, fire loss and rescue opeations and finally to find a method to make this illustration. A large number of data (observations and estimates) which describe the environment, fire spread, smoke spread, operations and course of events have been analysed. The study inter alia points out that the number of fatalities could have been reduced 40-50 percent if smoke detectors had existed and that the operation units in almost all fires were larger than necessary. One of the most interesting results is the description of the risk for fire spread as a function of time in different kind of dwellings.