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Potential value of sprinklers in reducing fire casualties

✍ Scribed by S.J. Melinek

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
561 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0379-7112

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✦ Synopsis

The number of casualties, if all fires were sprinklered, is estimated assummg the average number of casualttes per ]ire depends only on the extent of spread and that the proportton of fires spreading, if all butldings were sprmklered, would be equal to that in extstmg sprmklered buildings. It is shown that the number of fatal casualties would be reduced by about half whde the number of non-fatal casualties would be reduced by about twenty per cent. FtnaUy, tt is shown that sprinklers significantly reduce the number of multi-casualty fires.

This paper ts part of a research study aimed at developing quantitatwe fire engineering methods for the assessment of fire risk. The results wdl be used to calibrate the mathematical models on whtch these assessments are based.

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