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Author
Proulx, G.
Title
Evacuation From a Single Family House.
Coporate
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Book or Conf
Human Behavior in Fire. International Symposium, 4th. Proceedings. July 13-15, 2009, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Cambridge, UK, 255-266 p., 2009
Keywords
human behavior | evacuation | human response | housing | single family homes | occupants | time | basements | occupant response | scenarios | smoke detectors | floors | alarm response | smoke density | toxicity | smoke obscuration | structural integrity | education | sleep | building design | fire safety | fire alarm systems | egress | fire tests | evacuation time
Identifiers
Required Safe Egress Time (RSET); Available Safe Egress Time (ASET); location and cause of a fire; occupant age; Ontario Fire Death Risk Index for age, 2003-2007; USA Fire Death Risk Index for age, 2002-2005; sleep stage; drug and alcohol consumption; pre-movement time; travel time; full-scale basement fire tests; sequence of events - time in seconds