An Investigation on the Distribution of Fire Brands and Spot Fires Due to a Hotel Fire

Abstract

A hotel fire occurred in Shirahama, Wakayama prefecture on November 17^th 1998. This building fire was one of the widest burning area of building fires in Japan. During this fire, there was high wind velocity at about 7m/sec. At the same time, there was a lot of number of fire brands. We surveyed the distribution of fire brands and spot fires due to this fire by exploration and questionnaire. As a consequence, it was found that through exploration and questionnaire that there is a relation between the distribution of fire brands and the size of fire brands etc.