Fire Research is helping to reduce the direct loss by fire and
also the national investment in fire by improving fire-fighting and
making sure that building regulations and standards in general are
designed rationally for the fires that occur in practice. It is shown
that in this way savings can be made. Various new developments in the
field of detection fire-fighting and in the measurement of the
impact of propaganda for fire prevention are discussed. The paper
emphasizes once again the need for a 'systems' approach to fire
protection which has been advocated by the Fire Research Station in
the past.
