Fire Risk and Fire Scheme of Cities in Hokkaido

Abstract

HOKKAIDO Prefectural Office and each municipality in HOKKAIDO committed fire risk investigation and fire scheme of each city to Japan Fire Protection Science Association. We handled eight cities ; OTARU, YUBARI, KUSHIRO, OBIHIRO, RUMOI, TAKIGAWA, MURORAN and KITAMI since June, 1957.
The fire risk investigation and fire scheme consist of the following process.
First, we ask the municipality to offer the necessary basic data of her fire protection, and we investigate the real state of the city, namely, the topography, the building details, the building coverage, the water supply, the fire brigade, the fire record and other fire protective facilities on the spot.
Then, on the basis of these data, we calculate the present fire risk of the city, according to “Hishida’s Theory of fire risk calculation”.
Secondly, we made the several plans to decrease the fire risk, and calculate the expectant low risk with the possible expenditure.
The details of the results are exemplified by tables in the latter part of this paper.