- Author
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Ahrens, M.
- Title
- Warehouse Fires, Excluding Cold Storage.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Report
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NFPA No. USS77,
February 2009,
93 p.
- Keywords
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warehouses
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storage
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fire statistics
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structures
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death
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injuries
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costs
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damage
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lighting equipment
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arson
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heating equipment
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fire extinguishing agents
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surveys
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methodology
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extinguishing
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fire losses
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fire investigations
- Identifiers
- fact sheet; National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS); automatic extinguishing equipment in warehouses
- Abstract
- NFPA estimates that U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 1,350 reported structure fires per year in warehouse properties during the four-year-period of 2003-2006. These fires caused an estimated average of five civilian deaths, 21 civilian injuries, and $124 million in direct property damage per year. Cold storage, residential storage, and self-storage are excluded from these statistics. The leading causes of these fires were 1) electrical distribution or lighting equipment; 2) intentionally set fires; and 3) heating equipment. Automatic extinguishing systems were present in 38% of the reported warehouse fires. These estimates are based on data from the U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA's) National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA's) annual fire department experience survey. (Overview of fire problem in warehouse structure fires, excluding cold storage properties, including trends causal information, automatic detection and suppression equipment performance. A collection of previously published incident descriptions are included.)