Recent improvements in equipment used by firefighters has increased the value of manual suppression in buildings. However, because there is no evaluation method available, the effectiveness of manual suppression can not be incorporated into a fire safety analysis of a building. This thesis develops a method for evaluating manual suppression in buildings. he evaluation is done through an analysis of the paths through a building firefighters will use to attack a fire. The analysis considers the building, fire and fire department factors influencing progress towards teh fire. The fire attack path analysis yeilds a value relating the relative difficulty of a path.

Creator

• Callery, James Francis

Contributeurs

• Fitzgerald, Robert W.

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Fire Protection Engineering

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• etd-01215-094748

Mot-clé

• Fire
• evaluation
• manual suppression
• building fire protection

Advisor

• Fitzgerald, Robert W.

Defense date

• 1998-05-01

Year

• 2005

Date created

• 2005-01-21

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright