Career fire fighter dies and chief is injured when struck by 130-foot awning that collapses during a commercial building fire - Texas.

In the past twenty years, many severe basement fires occurred and caused huge losses of human lives and damages to property in Taiwan. During a building fire, smoke at high temperatures and poisonous gases (such as CO) may easily spread through corridors and ventilation systems in the entire building. Therefore, protecting against the basement fires in commercial buildings is of important concern for Taiwan’s fire protection authority. This paper utilizes FDS (Fire Dynamic Simulator) to construct a computer simulation model for investigating the Cardon basement fire that occurred in Taipei (1993). The fire accident unfortunately caused tremendous property losses and heavy casualties (22 died and 7 were injured). The major important parameters of the flow field - such as speed to the spread of fire, smoke movement, upper layer temperature, and CO concentration are obtained to analyze and understand the fire dynamic characteristics. The computed results reasonably agree with post-accident reports. The simulation results obtained may be utilized to improve the better and safer designs for basement building fire protection capability. The information can also be valuable for the similar fire disaster prevention and mitigation in the future.

Fire fighter suffers a heart attack and dies after performing "ventilation-entry-search" activities in a five-story apartment building fire - New York.

10.26616/nioshfffacef200247 ◽

2003 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Heart Attack ◽

Fire Fighter ◽

Apartment Building ◽

Building Fire

Fire fighter dies after collapse at apartment building fire - Kentucky.

10.26616/nioshfffacef200243 ◽

2003 ◽

Keyword(s):

Fire Fighter ◽

Apartment Building ◽

Building Fire

Commercial building fire claims the lives of two volunteer fire fighters - Mississippi.

10.26616/nioshffface98f21 ◽

1999 ◽

Keyword(s):

Commercial Building ◽

Fire Fighters ◽

Building Fire

Career fire fighter dies in fall from roof at apartment building fire - New York.

10.26616/nioshfffacef200719 ◽

2009 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Fire Fighter ◽

Apartment Building ◽

Building Fire

Career fire fighter dies from an out-of-air emergency in an apartment building fire - Connecticut.

10.26616/nioshfffacef201419 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Fire Fighter ◽

Apartment Building ◽

Building Fire

Energy Disaggregation for Commercial Building with Unmonitored Facilities by Using Diurnal Linear Basis Function Model

IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems ◽

10.1541/ieejeiss.140.137 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 140 (2) ◽

pp. 137-144

Author(s):

Fuyuki Sato ◽

Shinichiro Otani ◽

Nobuyuki Yamaguchi

Keyword(s):

Basis Function ◽

Commercial Building ◽

Function Model ◽

Linear Basis ◽

Energy Disaggregation

Analysis on Fire Prevention and Fire Evacuation Design in Large Commercial Building

2018 International Conference on Social Sciences, Education and Management (SOCSEM 2018) ◽

10.25236/socsem.2018.76 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Fire Prevention ◽

Commercial Building ◽

Fire Evacuation

Fire fighter suffers sudden cardiac death while performing driver/operator duties at a residential structure fire - New Jersey.

10.26616/nioshfffacef201221 ◽

2013 ◽

Keyword(s):

New Jersey ◽

Sudden Cardiac Death ◽

Cardiac Death ◽

Fire Fighter