Human Behaviour in Fires

[hospitalboy]

Afternoon All

I am trying to locate information on Human Behaviour in Fires. Does anyone know of any sites whci might be able to help? Have Tried The BRE who want a lot of money.

Any help would be much appricatied.

Many Thanks.... (and its snowing....ggrrrrrrr!)

[jonsi]

have you looked at http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/fire/pdf/155997.pdf?

[Messy]

There is a fair bit online - for instance......

http://www.communities.gov.uk/archived/ ... nbehaviour

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source ... X1yseu_wYA

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source ... 32z-HG41cw



But I assume you've already Googled the subject. Was there anything specific you are researching?

[Reddwarf]

Horizon done a programme called "how to survive a disaster" there is loads of information on human behaviour I even include extracts from it as part of my fire safety training. do a search on youtube parts 1,2&6 are the best to watch, also have a look for the thresher fire as this is CCTV footage taken of a fire in a shop and shows how badly people react to the situation. If you can find the clips or can't download them let me and i will send you a copy.

Also woolworth's fire
Bradford football ground
Chicago school fire
& Station fire in America.


Red

[Messy]

Also -re Red's mention of the Station Nightclub fire, there's quite a bit about this on wikipedia (including plans) and a good 3-D plan of the club on Google images

[hammer1]

If you really are looking for some high tech info and want to impress. There is a computer model called exodus which is a evacuation simulation and pedestrian dynamics/circulation analysis.

If you have a look at the fire safety engineering group website, there is plenty to look round, as they have done extensive research on human behaviour in fire situations, using real fire scenarios etc. You can also view free clips of how exodus works and how human behaviour effects evacuations.

http://fseg.gre.ac.uk/fire/EXODUS_animations.asp

http://fseg.gre.ac.uk/fire/movies/vr-bE ... -Spdx2.wvx

I attended a week course about this and smartfire many moons ago, which 80% went over my head , but I found it fascinating.

Plus having some of those clips will do wonders for your presentation mate

[AsbestosSurveyors]

Are you looking for any examples in terms of human psychology in occurances of fire? This would be interesting.

has anyone read up on this at all?

Robert

[Keith1983]

What about the fact that all the fire exit signs show a person clearly running yet we are told time and again to walk!

[hammer1]

There is a section in the NEBOSH fire safety book (the red book), section 5.2 that has a piece on human behaviour which uses the stardust nightclub (Dublin) and Summerland fires (Isle Of Man). The Summerland fire introduces peoples protective nature, where Parents run in the complete wrong directions, as their kids were at crèches etc in other parts of the building.

I have a small clip on the Summerland fire if you want it.

[Jack Kane]

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[martin1804]

I know you have seen it before Hospitalboy, and others, but for those who haven't:


http://www.crid.or.cr/digitalizacion/pd ... tenido.pdf

[Mrs Marple]

Thanks Martin - I hadn't seen this one before