- Author
- Bryan, J. L. | DiNenno, P. J.
- Title
- Human Behavior in a Nursing Home Fire.
- Coporate
- Maryland Univ., College Park
- Journal
- Fire Journal, Vol. 74, No. 3, 44-47,141-143, May 1980
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Keywords
- human behavior | nursing homes | nursing staff | fire departments | smoke | flashover | fire alarm systems
- Identifiers
- University Nursing Home, Silver Spring, MD
- Abstract
- University Nursing Home was a two-story building of protected, noncombustible construction, located in Silver Spring, Maryland. At approximately 8:33 am on April 13, 1979, a smoke detector on the ceiling of a lounge area at the south end of the corridor in the south section of B wing on the second floor of the nursing home activated. This detector was activated by a flow of convected heat and dark smoke from the door of patient room 27, approximately 15 feet to the north.