- Author
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Christian, W. J.
- Title
- Effect of Structural Characteristics on Dwelling Fire Fatalities.
- Coporate
- Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., Northbrook, IL
- Journal
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Fire Journal,
Vol. 68,
No. 1,
22-28,
January 1974
- Keywords
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residential buildings
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fire fatalities
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fire safety
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fire statistics
- Identifiers
- materials first ignitied in Oregion Residential Buildings; factors contribution to 119 conflagrations in the United States and Canada since 1900; primary causes of dwelling fire deaths; reasons for failure to escape from dewlling fires; factors responsible for spread of smoke and fire resulting in loss of life in dwellings; equivalent duration of ASTM E 119 standard fire for various experimental fires; time burning before detection Oregon dwelling fires; effects of closed door on limiting survival time in a room beyond (min.); building separation distances for protection against radiation from window openings of burning building; horizontal separation required to protect against flames through the roof of an exposing building fire