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Fire in the United States : a reference work on the nation's fire problem / Ciro Bouchard and Marco Fortin, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Safety and risk in society series.
- Safety and risk in society series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fire prevention--United States.
- Fire prevention.
- Fires--United States.
- Fires.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (95 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work is an overview of America's fire problem. The book is designed to arm the fire service and others with information that motivates corrective action, sets priorities, targets specific fire programmes, serves as a model for state and local analysis of fire data, and provides a baseline for evaluating programmes.
- Contents:
- Intro
- FIRE IN THE UNITED STATES: A REFERENCE WORK ON THE NATION'S FIRE PROBLEM
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- PURPOSE AND SCOPE
- NATIONAL PROBLEM
- REGIONAL AND STATE PROFILES
- RESIDENCES AND OTHER PROPERTIES
- CAUSES OF FIRES AND FIRE LOSSES
- RACE, AGE, AND GENDER CHARACTERISTICS OF VICTIMS
- CONCLUSIONS
- End Notes
- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
- SOURCES
- National Fire Incident Reporting System
- U.S. Fire Departments
- Uses of NFIRS
- METHODOLOGY
- National Estimates
- Unknowns
- Incomplete Loss Reporting
- Adjusted Percentages
- Representativeness of the Sample
- Comparing Statistics to Past Editions
- Trend Data
- Cause Categories
- Rounding
- Differences between NFIRS and NFPA Data
- Unreported Fires
- ORGANIZATION OF REPORT
- Chapter 2 THE NATIONAL FIRE PROBLEM
- THE BROADER CONTEXT
- U.S. Fire Deaths versus Other Nations
- Total Cost of Fire
- FIRE CASUALTIES BY POPULATION GROUP
- State and Regional Profiles
- Gender
- Age
- Race
- KINDS OF PROPERTIES WHERE FIRES OCCUR
- Property Types
- Losses
- Chapter 3 STRUCTURES AND OTHER PROPERTIES
- STRUCTURES
- Residential
- Overview of All Residential Structures
- One- and Two-Family Dwellings
- Trends
- Apartments
- Other Residential Structures
- Non-Residential
- VEHICLES AND OTHER MOBILE PROPERTIES
- Special Data Problems
- OUTSIDE AND OTHER PROPERTIES
- APPENDIX A- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NFPA AND NFIRS ESTIMATES
- INDEX
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and cip data provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 1-61324-611-0
- OCLC:
- 742353650
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