- Author
- Best, R.
- Title
- One-Hundred Million Dollar Fire in K Mart Distribution Center--Sprinkler Systems Overwhelmed.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Journal
- Fire Journal, Vol. 77, No. 2, 36-42,80, March 1983
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Keywords
- department stores | sprinkler systems | fire spread | storage | petroleum | investigations | aerosols
- Abstract
- K Mart Corporation's 1.2 million-square-foot Distribution Center in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, was totally destroyed hen a fire involving palletized storage of petroleum-liquid-based aerosol containers overwhelmed the sprinkler systems.