NDLI: How Many People are Exposed to Sublethal Fire Smoke?

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Hall, John R.
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	A good estimate of the magnitude of the population exposed to fire smoke would be a reality check on the suitability of predicting harm to people from fire through the use of conservatively low fire safety thresholds designed to assure no harm to even vulnerable subpopulations. If this total number of exposed people were far greater than the number of reported victims, then it would be fair to say that the implied safety factors in such a calculation are unreasonably large.Based on analyses of demographic and fire incidence data, it is estimated that between 310,000 and 670,000 people (excluding firefighters) in the U.S. are exposed to fire smoke each year in unwanted home fires alone. This compares to an average of 3,318 home civilian fire deaths and 11,505 civilian fire injuries per year involving smoke inhalation in part or in whole in reported home fires. There are thus 21 to 45 civilians exposed to toxic fire smoke per year for every one with a reported fire injury involving smoke inhalation. It is likely that most of these exposures are brief or are to the dilute smoke that is present outside the room of fire origin, where most survivors are located, and do not result in any noticeable consequences, let alone injury or death.
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	116
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00152684
Journal	Fire Technology
Volume Number	40
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728099
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2004-01-01
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Characterization and Evaluation Materials Physics Mechanics Civil Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Materials Science Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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