Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

Japan has a great amount of historical heritages composed with various sorts of wood products. Recently, Horyuji, an world-oldest Buddhism temple and Himeji-Jo, a graceful lord castle have registrated as the World-worth Properties. Such kinds of heritages, however, have frequently caught and destroyed by fire. This paper reports some results of investigation on fire facts and preparedness for historical properties. This survey shows the needs of preparedness against an initial stage of fire and the establishment of fire managements with man-equipment interface.