Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

The recent fire accident in an elementary school of chonan city in Korea causes the media focus on the fire safety of residential container building. In this study, real fire tests were conducted in this kind of building. Combustion products including O2, CO2, CO, NOx, SOx, HCl, HCN were measured, blood samples of lab rats were analyzed in terms of Co-Hb, Glucose, AST(GOT), ALT(GPT), in order to investigate the hazard-reduction effects of employing gas mask and filter during the fire emergency of residential container buildings. According to the test results, whether employing the filter causes a sheer difference in the toxicity of the fire-induced gases, and the importance of wearing a gas mask was evidently demonstrated.