- Author
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Emmons, H. W.
- Title
- Fire and Fire Protection.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Journal
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Scientific American,
Vol. 231,
No. 1,
21-27,
July 1974
- Report
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Home Fire Proj. Tech. Rpt. 11,
- Keywords
-
fire protection
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fire losses
- Identifiers
- fire mechanism
- Abstract
- Fire losses in the U.S. are the highest in the world. The reason is apparently the nation's high standard of living. Better protection calls basically for a better understanding of the mechanism of fire.