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A fire test in which furniture was used as the fuel was carried out in the fire compartment which was used for the investigation of the behaviour of structural steel in fires. The purpose of the test was to find out whether the wood cribs which were used as the fuel in this large programme of tests gave fires which were representative of the kind which would be expected from the occupancies which fall within the range of fire load densities used, namely, domestic, hospital, hotel and some office. The results showed that the furniture fire fitted almost exactly into the pattern obtained for the wood crib fires both in respect of the fire temperatures and the temperatures reached by structural steel.