Abstract
This study is designed to furnish data relating to the danger scale of fire for stored goods by clarifying the relation between the cause of fire and stored goods derived from the examples of fire broken out in the storage of goods including warehouse, storeroom, etc.
Cases of fire occurred in Tokyo metropolis in these 3 years numbered 440. Among them, the cases where the stored goods themselves caused directly fire are 23% in the warehouse, and 3% in the storeroom, totalling 8.4% of all. These stored goods are almost chemicals. The cases where the stored goods were of combustible nature or served as a medium of fire were 40% against the total number of case. Straws, lumbers, wastes including paper, odds and ends, etc. shows outstanding figures amongst them.
After all, it may be rightly concluded that we should direct our attention to chemicals in case we consider the danger of stored goods themselves. However, inquiry must be made in reference to the problem of where are the goods stored.
