The New York City fire epidemic as a toxic phenomenon

✍ Scribed by Rodrick Wallace

• Book ID: 104771838
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 958 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-0131
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00432492

✦ Synopsis

load through several unexpected mechanisms of fire contagion In turn, the work load increase has itself had a disproportionate physiologic impact: A classic dose-response relation has been observed between a composite measure of per capita structural fire work load and the percentage of the fire-fighting work force retiring under conditions of disability After 1974, the increase in work load seems to have caused entry to the 'linear' portion of the dose-response curve.

Implications of this synergism are explored for both New York City and other American urban areas now suffering 'fiscal crises' or planning fire service reductions.