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Author
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Title
Profile of Fire in the United States, 1985-1994.
Coporate
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emmitsburg, MD
Report
FA 175, September 1997, 27 p.
Distribution
AVAILABLE FROM: U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), 16825 South Seton Ave., Emmitsburg, MD 21727. Telephone: 301-447-1000. Website: http://www.usfa.fema.gov
Keywords
fire statistics | fire losses | smoke detectors | sprinklers | arson | costs
Identifiers
civilian casualties per million population; national trend; firefighter casualties; property types; causes of fires and deaths; losses by property category; non-residential property types; mobile properties; risk of casualties by age; rooms of fire origin; smoke detector performance; arson - where it occurs; estimate of the 'true' cost of fire; death rates in industrial nations; 1994 U.S. deaths and death rate