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NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION (NFPA)
HIGH RISE BUILDING FIRES

SEPTEMBER 2001 REPORT BY JOHN R. HALL, JR.

In the high rise fire experience report, Mr. Hall states:

“It is worth noting, in Table 1, that most high rise building fires and associated losses occur in apartment buildings. This may seem surprising, but it shouldn’t. Home dominate the U.S. fire problem so completely that it is always a good bet that any newly examined fire problem, unless it is one that cannot occur in homes, will have its largest share in homes.

One reason why we may not see the importance of homes in the high rise building fire problem is the unwritten rules of news reporting. When a fire occurs in a high rise office building, the fact that it is a high rise usually is cited prominently, often more prominently than the fact that it was an office building. For a high rise hotel or motel, the high rise reference is still likely to be prominent. For a high rise apartment building or hospital, however, the fact that it is a high rise will tend to be downplayed or omitted altogether. Even if a tall building is a tall building, no matter what is going on inside, when people think of a “towering inferno,” they typically think of an office building, or maybe a hotel.”

*All five 2003 residential high rise fires were relatively low key and not dramatically reported.

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• Lack Of Warning In High-Rise Fire Raises Worries

• Fire Breaks Out In South Loop High-Rise

• 2 people, cat rescued from high-rise fire

• Fire Forces Evacuation at Downtown High-Rise

• Dozens Injured in New York City Blaze

• Firefighter, 3 others injured in high-rise fire

• Fire Breaks Out at Sears Tower TV Transmitter

• Chicago Firefighter Injured in High-Rise Fire

• Two Injured in High-Rise Fire

• Fire In Chicago Hilton & Towers

• Burning Candle Likely Cause of Lincoln Park High-Rise Fire

• Illinois Group Says Chicago Life Safety Evaluations Provide False Sense of Security for High Rises

• Lincoln Park High-Rise Fire Leaves One Hurt

• Fire Marshal To Draft Proposal For Council

• Residential High-Rise Fires & Sprinklers

• Sprinkler Puts Out Fire on 26th Floor of Chicago High-Rise

• Facts About Chicago High-Rise Building Fire Protection 101904

• Mayor's Proposal for High-Rise Safety

• Information on the High-Rise Ordinance in Houston

• Analysis of the “Life Safety Evaluation System for Business and Residential Buildings” (PowerPoint)

• Study Shows High-Rise Retrofit Approximately $2.50 Per Square Foot

• Fire Sprinklers Can Prevent Death and Injury In High Rises

• Advisory Board Applauds Daley For Re-Visiting High Rise Retrofit Issue

• The Chicago High-Rise Safety Report

• U.S. Agency Wants Safer High-Rises

• A Computational Analysis of an Apartment Fire Studies Vertical Flame Spread

• Champaign Retrofit Ordinance (word 2000 Format-10MB)

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From left to right: Ed Prendergast (FPE), Maureen Marley (High Rise Resident), & Dennis Mushol (High Rise Resident) are recording their radio public service announcements with WBBM.	From left to right: Mrs. Maureen Marley & WBBM Representative Linda Strom.

 

 

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