Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

Records from Taipei City Fire Department show that age and gender of the victims, type of housing, the location of the fire, source of ignition, hour range and residential fire deaths are all related to how and why residential fires occurred in Taipei City. With aids of the prevention strategy on residential fire which includes safety precaution, arson prevention and reinforcement on rescue training and the employment of fire rescue decision-making system, we are able to build hierarchy of prevention strategy to reduce the probability of residential fires, injury and deaths.