- Author
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Hill, S. W.
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Best, R.
- Title
- Fires in Two Boarding Facilities Kill 34 Residents.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA
- Journal
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Fire Journal,
Vol. 76,
No. 4,
44-49,51-57,106,
July 1982
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Keywords
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board and care homes
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residential buildings
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building construction
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egress
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fire protection
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emergency plans
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casualties
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smoke
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deaths
- Identifiers
- nonsprinklered structure; combustible furnishing; detection systems; rest homes; custodial care facility
- Abstract
- On October 4, 1980, a Fire at the Little Firends, Inc. Community Living Facility in Naperville, Illinois, killed three residents. Four months later, 31 residents died in a fire at the Beachview Rest Home in Keansburg, New Jersey. These are just two of the boarding home fires in which 138 residents died over the past three years. Across the United States, 300,000 similar facilities house two million residents.