- Author
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Williams, M. B.
- Title
- Fire Safety for High-Rise Buildings. Fire Problems Program.
- Coporate
- Johns Hopkins Univ., Silver Spring, MD
- Sponsor
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
- Report
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APL/JHU FPP TR7
November 1971
26 p.
- Contract
- GI-12
- Keywords
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high rise buildings
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fire safety
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smoke
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people movement
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evacuation
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emergencies
- Identifiers
- fire mitigation
- Abstract
- Several recent fires in high-rise buildings have shown that present building concepts are not adequate for handling fire emergencies. Fires in the United States and Canada have demonstrated that modern, well built, code conforming high-rise buildings often produce unexpectedly high property damage and loss of life. The general public has grown accustomed to the notion of modern high-rise buildings as fire resistant structures which are impervious to fire and smoke damage. People usually associated building fires with wooden frame structures. The idea of a major fire in a concrete and steel building does not seem realistic to them. These attitudes are probably due in part to the comparatively safe fire record of "skyscrapers" of the past.