- Author
- Proulx, G. | Reid, I. M. A.
- Title
- Occupant Behavior and Evacuation During the Chicago Cook County Administration Building Fire.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Journal
- Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 4, 283-309, November 2006
- Report
- NRCC 48146,
- Keywords
- building fires | occupants | occupant response | human behavior | evacuation | office buildings | high rise buildings | fire fatalities | death | injuries | questionnaires | people movement | decision making | training | fire safety | information retrieval | information science | fire drills | fire alarm systems | escape means | response time | evacuation time
- Identifiers
- Cook County Administration Building Fire, 69 West Washington, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 2003; document the occupants' behavior and evacuation on the day of the fire; obtain information from all building occupants on their training and fire safety experience prior to the fire. Information was gathered on past drills and exposure to fire alarms and messages from the Public Address (P.A.) system; distribution of respondents; evacuation procedures as understood by respondents; respondents on location at the time of the fire; recognition and response; motivation to start evacuation; Building Emergency Action Plan (BEAP)