Fire Science and Technology
Online ISSN : 1882-0492
Print ISSN : 0285-9521
ISSN-L : 0285-9521
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An Example of Human Behavior in a Hotel Fire
Soichiro OkishioTakashi Handa
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1983 Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 131-140

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A hotel fire occured in Tokyo on Februay 8, 1982 and it caused the deaths of 33 persons. An examination and analysis were made on the behavior of the hotel's guests who had been registered at that time. The items examined and analyzed in this paper were the guests' recognition of emergency exits, the guests' means of awakening, the first three actions of the guests following their awakening, the guests' means of becoming aware of the fire and the first five actions of the guests following their recognition of the fire incident.
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© 1983 Center for Fire Science and Technology, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
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