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Facilities, 1984
The majority of firms whose premises are destroyed by fire go out of business within two years. It turns out that, far more significant than the immediate terrifying, foul‐smelling disaster, the real enemy is the longer term shock to the organisation of the loss of its information and records — its nervous system.
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The majority of firms whose premises are destroyed by fire go out of business within two years. It turns out that, far more significant than the immediate terrifying, foul‐smelling disaster, the real enemy is the longer term shock to the organisation of the loss of its information and records — its nervous system.
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FIRE — a database on chemical warehouse fires
Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 1994In connection with an EC-funded research project concerning toxic effluents from chemical warehouse fires, a database containing detailed information on selected fire cases has been developed. This paper describes the database and gives examples of its application for identification of fire types, substances involved and fire products/smoke ...
Koivisto, Raija, Nielsen, Dan
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Fire Load, Fire Severity, and Fire Endurance
1970A review is presented of fire studies beginning with the work of Ingberg at the National Bureau of Standards, who attempted to relate the severity of a fire endurance test in the laboratory to the conditions existing during actual building fires. He showed the importance of weight of combustibles per unit floor area as a major factor. He recognized the
A F Robertson, D Gross
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On Fire, Under Fire, of Fired: Superintendents in the Pandemic provides a unique view into the unprecedented challenges and transformative opportunities superintendents faced during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic and examines the lessons that can be learned moving forward. In their own words, current and former superintendents reflect on
Kristi Wilson, Susan Enfield
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Kristi Wilson, Susan Enfield
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Fire Regimes, Fire Ecology, and Fire Management in Mexico
AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 2008I propose several broad fire regimes and provide an analysis of fire ecology for the principal vegetation types in Mexico. Forty percent of Mexican ecosystems are fire-dependent (pine forests, several oak forests, grasslands, several shrublands, savannas, palm lands, wet prairies, "popal" and "tular" swamps), 50% are fire-sensitive (tropical rain ...
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