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Highrise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This report documents one of the most significant high-rise fires in U.S. history. The fire claimed the lives of 3 firefighters and gutted 8 floors of a 38-story fire resistive building, causing an estimated $100 million in direct property loss. This report will demonstrate that the magnitude of this loss is greater than the sum of the individual problems and failures which produced it. Although problems with emergency power systems, standpipe pressure reducing valves, fire alarm systems, exterior fire spread, and building staff response can be identified, the magnitude of this fire was a result of the manner in which these factors interacted with each other. It was the combination of all of these factors that produced the outcome.
Highrise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This report documents one of the most significant high-rise fires in U.S. history. The fire claimed the lives of 3 firefighters and gutted 8 floors of a 38-story fire resistive building, causing an estimated $100 million in direct property loss. This report will demonstrate that the magnitude of this loss is greater than the sum of the individual problems and failures which produced it. Although problems with emergency power systems, standpipe pressure reducing valves, fire alarm systems, exterior fire spread, and building staff response can be identified, the magnitude of this fire was a result of the manner in which these factors interacted with each other. It was the combination of all of these factors that produced the outcome.
Highrise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
J. G. Routley (author) / C. Jennings (author) / M. Chubb (author)
1991
99 pages
Report
No indication
English
Fire Services, Law Enforcement, & Criminal Justice , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Fires , Fire fighters , Commercial buildings , Fire protection systems , Incident commands , Building regulations , Fire regulations , Lessons learned , Appendices , Fire development , Smoke movement , Fuel loading , Water supplies , Fire detection systems , Fire alarm systems , Sprinklers , Fatalities , One Meridan Plaza , High rise buildings , Office buildings , Philadelphia Fire Department , Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
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