In this paper, we examine fire prevention planning in terms of analysis population trends with regard to the area covered by Merseyside and rescue service North West England. particular, present an examination potential impact changing characteristics previously identified as being associated risk such old age, living alone, behaviours lifestyles smoking alcohol consumption, health social care ...

Fire-setting is a serious and costly form of antisocial behavior. Our objective in this study was to examine the prevalence and correlates of intentional fire-setting behavior in the United States. Data were derived from a nationally representative sample of US residents 18 years and older. Structured psychiatric interviews (N = 43,093) were completed by trained lay interviewers between 2001 an...

Forest lightning fire is a recurrent and serious problem in the Daxinganling Mountains of northeastern China. Information on the spatial distribution of fire danger is needed to improve local fire prevention actions. The Maxent (Maximun Entropy Models), which is prevalent in modeling habitat distribution, was used to predict the possibility of lightning fire occurrence in a 1 × 1 km grid based ...

Detecting break out of fire at the initial stage itself is vital for the prevention of material as well as human loss. Traditional point based sensors for heat or smoke detection will detect the presence of fire only if the particles produced as a result of combustion reach the sensors. Video based fire detection approach is implemented in scenarios where point sensors may fail. Video based fir...

Introduction: The cement production process uses high technology machines and coal as fuel. potential for fires is huge because in the company there are areas that very vulnerable to such coalmill, preheater, klin areas. purpose of this study describe description causes fires, fire prevention technical efforts, OSH organization field prevention, personal protective equipment (PPE). Methods: met...

the school environment is an environment wherein a student spends one third of his life with teachers and other students. in the present study, the safety levels of governmental and non-governmental schools were studied and compared. in a descriptive cross-sectional study we assessed schools safety using fire and life safety inspection checklist presented by the national fire prevention agency ...