Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

The first report of the results of the pilot exercise in fire surveying set out the nature of the information obtainable from such surveys and gave a preliminary analysis of the nineteen house fires surveyed by the date of issue. This second report presents and discusses an analysis of information from 40 industrial fires. There are admittedly too few observations of any one feature for firm conclusions to be drawn, but typical of points of interest are observations relating to the downward spread of fire through timber floors, and the marked effect of the direction of air currents around the edge of a timber door on its fire resistance.