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Author
Bell, J. R.
Title
Five Die in Pittsburgh Boarding Home Fire.
Coporate
National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA
Journal
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
board and care homes | deaths | incinerators | injuries | investigations | 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.