- Author
- Holborn, P. G. | Nolan, P. F. | Golt, J.
- Title
- Analysis of Fire Sizes, Fire Grwoth Rates and Times Between Events Using Data From Fire Investigations.
- Coporate
- London South Bank Univ., England London Fire Dept., England
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 39, No. 6, 481-524, September 2004
- Keywords
- fire investigations | fire spread | fire growth | databases | time | fire investigators | libraries | residential buildings | fire damage | ignition sources | fire departments | statistics | risk assessment | fire fighting | occupants
- Identifiers
- fire growth rate; log-normal distribution; incident database; fire growth parameter value classification scheme employed in the analysis; log-normal parameters characterising the distribution of fire damage area in dwelling fires sampled; descriptive statistics for selected time intervals in the dwelling fires sampled; breakdown of dwelling fires by source of ignition and time between ignition and discovery; proportion of fires in dwellings exceeding a specified time for selected time intervals; number and percentage of dwelling fires sampled in each fire growth parameter class; log-normal parameters characterising the distribution of fire growth parameters in dwelling fires; percentage of fires in other buildings belonging to each fire damage size group by occupancy type; log-normal parameters characterising the distribution of fire damage area in other building fires sampled; log-normal parameters characterising the distribution of fire damage area for different occupancy groups; descriptive statistics for selected time intervals in the other building fires sampled; breakdown of discovery time by occupancy group for fires in other buildings; breakdown of other building fires by source of ignition and time between ignition and discovery; proportion of fires in other buildings exceeding a specified time for selected time intervals; number of fires in other buildings belonging to each fire growth parameter class by occupancy group; log-normal parameters characterising the distribution of fire growth parameters in the other building fires sampled; log-normal parameters characterising the distribution of fire growth parameters for each occupancy group in the other building fires sampled; log-normal parameters characterising the distributions of fire area at time of discovery on the basis of success (or failure) of first-aid fire-fighting measures for both dwelling and other building; circumstances surrounding the fires with the highest fire growth parameter ( ) values investigated in dwellings; circumstances surrounding the fires with the highest fire growth parameter ( ) values investigated in occupancy groups found in other buildings; Complimentary Cumulative Distribution Function (CCDF)