- Author
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Eggleston, L. A.
- Title
- Fire Defense Systems Analysis.
- Coporate
- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
- Sponsor
- Naval Radiological Defense Lab., San Francicso, CA
- Report
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NRDL-TR-68-66; Work Unit 2526B; T.O. No. 2520(67)
February 1969
125 p.
- Contract
- N0022867C2787
- Keywords
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fire protection
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systems analysis
- Identifiers
- nuclear attack conditions; fire defense; Urbanized Area; peacetime defense elements; elements of a normal peacetime fire defense; analyzing the effects of a nuclear attack; effect of a nuclear attack upon existing fire defenses; feasibility of a fire defense system for nuclear attack conditions
- Abstract
- Systems analysis principles are used to develop a hypothetical but not infeasible fire defense of a metropolitan area under nuclear attack conditions. This is defined as being equivalent to the Urbanized Area listed by the Bureau of the Census. The peacetime defense elements are reviewed together with their normal requirements and constraints. The system is then examined under nuclear attack conditions, with new requirements and constraints. It is concluded, that with citizen participation in thermal hardening, adequate command, and appropriate procedures, there is a reasonable degree of fire defense possible in an attack situation.