- Author
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Bell, J. R.
- Title
- Five Die in Pittsburgh Boarding Home Fire.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA
- Journal
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Fire Journal,
Vol. 77,
No. 5,
68-71,75,
September 1983
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Keywords
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board and care homes
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deaths
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incinerators
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injuries
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investigations
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occupants
- Abstract
- An incendiary fire in a three-story building being used as a boarding home in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, On October 28, 1982 was responsible for the deaths of five of the occupants and serious injury to the single surviving occupant.