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A survey of 40,000 building fires in Switzerland

✍ Scribed by M. Fontana; J.P. Favre; C. Fetz

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
510 KB
Volume
32
Category
Article
ISSN
0379-7112

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✦ Synopsis

A survey of all building-fires in the canton of Berne for the period of 1986 to 1995 was performed by the ETH (Eidgeno¨ssische Technische Hochschule, Zu¨rich) and the GVB (Geba¨udeversicherung des Kantons Bern) to establish a statistical database for fire safety engineering. It contains data on fire loss to the building structure (not the contents) from nearly 40,000 fires reported to the GVB over that period and may provide valuable information for fire safety engineering.

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