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Cost of fire

W. P. Me3.de, A First Pass at Computing the Cost of Fire in a Modem Society, The Herndon Group, Inc., Chapel Hill, N.C., 1991. [Pg.452]

As noted nearly five centuries ago, fires produce smoke and as learned this century, most of the fire deaths in this country result from people breathing that smoke (1). Over the years, the United States and Canada have had the worst fire loss records among the industrialized countries which keep such records (2). At present, the United States suffers 6,000 deaths and 30,000 reported injuries per year (3). The annual property damage exceeds 7 billion, and the total cost of fire is over 50 billion (4). [Pg.3]

Hall Jr., J.R. Calculating the Total Cost of Fire in the United States, Fire Journal 1989, (S3, 69-72. [Pg.10]

As society advances, its values depend on what is produced and those sources of production. However, as the means to acquire products becomes easier, values turn inward to the general societal welfare and our environment. Uncontrolled fire can devastate our assets and production sources, and this relates to the societal costs of fire prevention and loss restoration. The effects of fire on people and the environment become social issues that depend on the political ideology and economics that prevail in the state. Thus, attention to fire prevention and control depend on its perceived damage potential and our social values in the state. While these issues have faced all cultures, perhaps the twentieth century ultimately provided the basis for addressing fire with proper science in the midst of significant social and technological advances, especially among the developed countries. [Pg.2]

Fire Protection Association. 1974. Increasing number and cost of fires in chemical process industries. Fire Prev., Vol. 106, p. 15. [Pg.124]

Cost (Capital Expenditure and Operating Expense) Figure 3.5. Cost of fire protection performance... [Pg.25]

When the cost of fire protection is significant relative to the cost of the fire risk assessment... [Pg.100]

Fig. 484b—the cost of firing one kilogramme of porcelain may be taken as two francs—or one shilling and eight-pence while the cost of a cubic foot of space in the furnace will bo one franc ono centime—about ten-pe,ice. In Vienna, for every firing about seven klafters of wood are used, equal to sixteen and a half stacks, each of one hundred cubic feet, Hessian j in Berlin ten stocks, about seven hundred cubic feet, same measurement. [Pg.808]

The human and economic costs of fire damage can be significantly reduced if not eliminated by the use of a suitable passive fire protection system. [Pg.148]

Because of the nature of our business, we continue to have the fires but the cost is generally negligible in comparison to the cost of fire damage when the old systems were in use. Production downtime has been greatly reduced, and the operators working the lines feel much safer. [Pg.190]

Secondly, the costs of firing both these fuels in boilers will probably decrease. This may not alter the relation between the fuels. [Pg.874]

Recent publication of world fire statistics reveals that costs of fires currently runs around 1% of GDP in most advanced countries. Deaths and losses in the United States tend to be the most extreme with annual losses of lObn/year [224], The annual review performed by Munich Re of world disaster losses reveals that world-wide forest fire losses alone exceeded 5.5bn and insured losses exceeded 2.5bn during 2003. Such losses exceed the sum of all losses from volcanic eruptions, hailstones, flash floods, Tsunamis, landslides, avalanches, water drainage, frost, and local and winter storms combined (Of course the Baran earthquake, the European heat wave, floods, and severe and tropical storms individually exceeded forest fire losses, Munich Re [437],... [Pg.272]

Kent, A. K. Performance and cost of "firee-text" search systems. Inform. Stor. Ret. 6, 73 (1970). [Pg.90]

Hall, J.R. (1997) The Toted Cost of Fire in the United States Through 1994, National Fire Protection Agency, Quincy, MA. [Pg.349]

Most commercial plastics are readily combustible, and some evolve dark smoke on binning. This smoke is indirectly responsible for most fire fatalities. The cost of fire damage to buildings and contents has been estimated at up to 30 billion euros/year in Europe. [Pg.51]

Fire prevention may be considered to be a special aspect of damage control in that it protects the machinery, materials and manufactured goods assets. It also protects the manpower asset, since fire can cause injury as well as damage and because fire damage is a very costly item, it is indirectly protecting the money asset as well. The British Insurance Association has estimated that the total cost of fire losses in the United Kingdom (excluding Northern Ireland) for 1988 was 646.0 million. [Pg.150]

Additional corrosion detection equipment, deluge systems, and fire pumps were recommended, which would cost 600,000. Because of the exceptionally high retentions (deductibles) in the insurance program, the cost of fire protection improvements would not be offset by insurance cost savings. [Pg.574]

Each year about 5000 people are killed by fires in Europe and more than 4000 people in the United States. Direct property losses by fires in the United States are roughly 0.2% of the gross domestic product, and the total costs of fires are around 1% of the gross domestic product." Therefore, it is important to develop well-designed flame retardant materials to decrease both fire risks and fire hazards. [Pg.164]

Financial surveys undertaken on behalf of the insurance organisations identify clearly the cost of fires to the British economy, details of which are shown in the graph in Figure 1.3. [Pg.3]

In terms of the economic cost of fire alone in the UK, the direct costs were estimated to be in the region of 8 billion for 2003. The costs of fires that were set deliberately in the same year amounted to 3 billion and the direct costs of the losses associated with false alarms were just under 1 billion. [Pg.285]


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