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What fire statistics tell us about our fire and building codes for housing and small buildings and fire risk for occupants of those structures
Author(s) -
Richardson Leslie R.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
fire and materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-1018
pISSN - 0308-0501
DOI - 10.1002/fam.774
Subject(s) - fire safety , fire protection , engineering , active fire protection , architectural engineering , forensic engineering , building code , environmental science , civil engineering
Abstract Annual reports on fire losses in Canada and the United States are in part, report cards on the efficacy of fire safety provisions in our building and fire codes and on the efforts to reduce risk for the occupants of those buildings. This paper attempts to assess what recent fire‐loss statistics indicate about how successful those efforts have been. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.