- Author
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Bright, R. G.
- Title
- Home Fire Detection Systems.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
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Item 7,
- Book or Conf
- Insurance Services Office. Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC). Annual Proceedings, 46th. March 26-29, 1974,
Memphis, TN,
14-16 p.,
1974
- Keywords
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fire departments
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fire detection systems
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residential buildings
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smoke detectors
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heat detectors
- Abstract
- Of the 12,000 or so persons killed by fire each year in the U. S., a little over half lose their lives in dwelling fires. The chance of a multiple loss-of-life fire incident occurring in the dwelling is even higher. Some 78 percent of all multiple death fires take place wihtin the family living unit. Some 75 percent of all multiple death fires in dwellings occur during the night hours. The significance of this is that apparently the people were asleep and unaware of the development of the fire until late into the fire incident, too late to savet themselves. From this kind of data one would suppose that had the family living unit been equipped with some type of early-warning fire deteciton device, many of these fatalities could have been avoided.