Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

Like other metropolises in the world, Shanghai has modernized habours, airports,industries of all categories, flourishing commerce and developed culture. Along with the development and opening of Pudong, Shanghai will become one of the largest financial and trade center in the west bank of the Pacific Ocean. But the rapid economical development and concentration of people will also bring about increasing fire hazard to Shanghai, fire death, injury and property losses have become more and more serious.The article synthetically analyzed fires Shanghai has occured since the liberation in the light of fire causes, locations, scales, fire death and injury and economic losses, and also analyzed main sourses of fire hazard in Shanghai, combining current structural characteristics of the metropolis such as application of steel construction, construction of super highrise buildings with glass curtain walls, large scale underground garages, subways, and recent development of high-grade, precision and advanced industries indicated by petrochemical complexes, air and marine transport, metroelectronic and computers, astronavigation, and measures which should be taken to deal with the hazards.