- Author
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Bell, J. R.
- Title
- Fifteen Residents Die in Mental Hospital Fire.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy,
- Journal
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Fire Journal,
Vol. 73,
No. 4,
68-76,
July 1979
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Keywords
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hospitals fires
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death
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handicapped
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storage
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residential buildings
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dormitories
- Identifiers
- mental hospital; Ellisville, MS; clothing storage room
- Abstract
- On December 9, 1978, an early morning fire originating in a clothing storage room in a residential custodil-care dormitory at a state mental hospital outside Ellisville, Mississippi, killed 15 of the 63 residents and hospitalized 16 others. Smoke spreading from the storage room simultaneously filled two wards on the top floor of the two-story, fire resistive building.