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Author
Williams-Leir, G.
Title
St. Lawrence Burns. Temperature Measurements.
Coporate
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Report
DBR Internal Report No. 152
December 1959
28 p.
Keywords
building fires | bedrooms | room fires | large scale fire tests | measurements | residential fires | temperature measurements | smoke | survival | radiometers | ventilation | vapor phases
Identifiers
occupant survival; smoke and sound measurements; radiant temperature of openings
Abstract
House-burning experiments carried out at Aultsville, Ontario in January and February 1958 by the Division of Building Research, National Research Council assisted by other organizations, have been generally described by G. W. Shorter in DBR Internal Report 150. Temperature measurements were made in the course of these experiments and the present report describes the technique used and gives the results.