Investigation of fires are useful tools for gathering experience and knowledge of how and
why fires occur and why they develop as they do. Several tools for accident investigation that …

Previous studies indicated that the elderly are vulnerable to fire injury. In this article, the
nature of such vulnerability in terms of fire injury risk factors including age band, gender …

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Abstract Knowledge of the relevant risk factors is a prerequisite for effective strategies to
prevent fatal residential fires. The aim of this chapter is to present the most important known …

For a majority of individuals, either severely injured or deceased in residential fires,
individual and environmental factors that increase risk are identifiable. Therefore, in order to …

A literature survey was conducted to study the available research connected to wakening of
sleeping people from the sound of a smoke alarm. The effect on the sound attenuation from …

In this report, the effectiveness of a detector-activated water mist system, Q-fog, has been
compared to traditional residential sprinklers. In total, eight tests were performed with a …

The concept of fire encompasses not only the physical dimension of combustion but also its
social, economic, and environmental dimensions. Fire risk is determined by the likelihood …

• Difficult to know total number of fire fatalities caused by smouldering• Smouldering fires are
challenging to document• Transition to flaming and consumption of evidence• May explain …

This article presents an analysis of a fire in a municipal apartment building used as housing
for people with challenges connected to drug addiction. The fire took place in Norway 7th of …