- Author
- Proulx, G.
- Title
- To Leave or To Stay: Occupants Dilemma During a Recent Highrise Fire.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Report
- IRC-ORAL-268; NRCC 42666,
- Book or Conf
- Fall Meeting. National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Kansas City, MO, 1-17 pp, 1997 AND APWA International Public Works Congress and Exhibition, Las Vegas, NV, [pages unknown], 1998, ['1998', '1997']
- Keywords
- high rise buildings | occupants | evacuation | occupant response | reinforced concretes | communication networks | fire safety | human response | corridors | visibility | smoke | apartments | elevators (lifts) | stairways | refuge | elderly persons
- Identifiers
- 25 storey highrise apartment building (1081 Ambleside Drive), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 31, 1997; voice communication system; occupant profile; age distribution of respondents; limittions of respondents; length of stay in the building; source of information on fire safety; awareness of the emergency; activity at time of fire awareness; cue causing to evacuate; smoke color; distance of visibility; reasons to stay in apartment; number of occupants in apartment; cue to evacuate for occupants under 65 and over 65 years old; different behavior for occupants under 65 and over 65 years old