- Author
- Thomas, I. R.
- Title
- Analysis of USA Retail Fires. Fire Code Reform Centre: Project 6. Research Report.
- Coporate
- Broken Hill Propriety Company Limited, Victoria, Australia
- Sponsor
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda, MD
- Report
- BHPR/SM/R/G/061; Fire Code Reform Centre Project 6, February 1997, 215 p.
- Keywords
- fire codes | fire statistics | fire damage | sprinklers | smoke | time | fire departments | ignition | construction | extinguishment | fire fatalities
- Identifiers
- fixed property use; extent of flame damage; alarm time; variation of extent of flame damage with alarm time; effect of sprinkler presence on extent of flame damage; effect of sprinkler presence on extent of smoke damage; area of fire origin; fires by AFO by alarm hour; time from alarm to fire department arrival; detector performance; number of storeys; form of heat of ignition; ignition factor; avenue of smoke travel
- Abstract
- The purpose of this report is to give an overview of the fire statistics for retail premises from the USA for the years 1983 to 1993, except 1986 for use in the Fire Code Reform Centre Project 6.