Long Range Planning: The Fire Scenario Approach.
Long Range Planning: The Fire Scenario Approach.
(554 K)
Lyons, J. W.
APL/JHU FPP B76-2; September 1976.
National Fire Prevention and Control Administration
(NFPCA). Annual Conference on Fire Research. July
14-16, 1976, Laurel, MD, 3-12 pp, 1976.
Keywords:
fire research; research facilities; planning; fire
losses; ignition; fire spread; fire growth; fire
suppression; fire detection; escape; fire protection;
first aid
Abstract:
The Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974
appreciably broadened the mission of the Center for Fire
Research at the National Bureau of Standards. New
subjects include fires in the transportation and use of
combustibles, design concepts for improved fire safety
in structures, biological and physiological effects of
toxic substances arising from unwanted fire, the
traumatic effects of fire on its victims, improved
methods of first aid for fire victims, characteristics
of arsonists, and studies of the stress encountered by
firefighters.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899