Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Civilian Fire Injuries in Residential Buildings (2008-2010). Topical Fire Report Series, Volume 13, Issue 1
Fires can strike anywhere in structures, buildings, automobiles, and the outdoors. Fires that affect our homes are often the most tragic and the most preventable. It is a sad fact, but each year over 75 percent of all civilian fatalities occur as a result of fires in residential buildingsour homes. Between 2008 and 2010, civilian fire casual-ties in residential buildings accounted for 81 percent of all fire fatalities. This topical fire report focuses on the charac-teristics of these fatalities.Civilian fire fatalities, by definition, involve people who die as a result of a fire. These fatalities generally occur when an indi-vidual is escaping, sleeping, or is unable to act during a fire.Annually from 2008 to 2010, an estimated 2,560 civilian fire fatalities resulted from 1,700 fatal residential building fires and an estimated 365,500 residential building fires. Fatal fires are those fires where one or more fatalities occur.The National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) data are used for the analyses presented throughout the report. For the purpose of this report, the term fatal residential building fires is synonymous with fatal residential fires and residential building fires is synonymous with residential fires. Fatal residential fires is used throughout the body of this report; the findings, tables, charts, head-ings, and footnotes reflect the full category fatal residential building fires.
Civilian Fire Injuries in Residential Buildings (2008-2010). Topical Fire Report Series, Volume 13, Issue 1
Fires can strike anywhere in structures, buildings, automobiles, and the outdoors. Fires that affect our homes are often the most tragic and the most preventable. It is a sad fact, but each year over 75 percent of all civilian fatalities occur as a result of fires in residential buildingsour homes. Between 2008 and 2010, civilian fire casual-ties in residential buildings accounted for 81 percent of all fire fatalities. This topical fire report focuses on the charac-teristics of these fatalities.Civilian fire fatalities, by definition, involve people who die as a result of a fire. These fatalities generally occur when an indi-vidual is escaping, sleeping, or is unable to act during a fire.Annually from 2008 to 2010, an estimated 2,560 civilian fire fatalities resulted from 1,700 fatal residential building fires and an estimated 365,500 residential building fires. Fatal fires are those fires where one or more fatalities occur.The National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) data are used for the analyses presented throughout the report. For the purpose of this report, the term fatal residential building fires is synonymous with fatal residential fires and residential building fires is synonymous with residential fires. Fatal residential fires is used throughout the body of this report; the findings, tables, charts, head-ings, and footnotes reflect the full category fatal residential building fires.
Civilian Fire Injuries in Residential Buildings (2008-2010). Topical Fire Report Series, Volume 13, Issue 1
2012
10 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Fire Services, Law Enforcement, & Criminal Justice , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Environmental Health & Safety , Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Fires , Injuries , Residential buildings , Bedrooms , Houses , Injury rates , Injury causes , Graphs(Charts) , Hazardous materials , Toxic substances , Fire incidents , Civilian fire injuries