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The Smoke Detector Survey and Analysis Program for the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration was designed to accomplish five primary
objectives, namely:
1. Identify domestic manufacturers of residential smoke detectors, and tabulate…

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Fire stops with you campaign poster

From the poster:
Test your smoke detectors once a month...
Replace your batteries once a year...

From the poster:
- 80% of all fires occur in residences
- most fire fatalities happen during sleeping hours
- most fires originate in non-sleeping areas

This report describes the general content of several World War II German documents on war-caused fires. Major emphasis was given to the translation of reports of the Hamburg police president and the Hamburg fire department action reports. The…

Information recorded by the Hamburg Fire Department during World War II has been summarized and analyzed to evaluate several operational parameters relating to the performance of the various fire fighting organizations under conditions of stress from…

Ranges for estimated fire fatalities are developed for firestorms and group fires initiated by conventional weapons in German cities during World War II. Firestorms fatalities are estimated to vary between 4% and 20% of the population-at-hazard.…

The enormous effectiveness of fire as a weapon of war was demonstrated in World War II. Structural ~ caused by fire accounted for 80 percent of the total damage to the cities attacked by airborne weapons. The great fire attacks on the cities of…

Whereas the United States suffers through destruction by fire an annual loss of life estimated at 15,000 human beings, most of them women and children, and,
Whereas , in the face of the world's dire need for American products, our fire losses…