Inadequate safeguards against fire
Name(s):
Inadequate fire code
Continuing fire hazards
Unavailability of fire protection
Inadequate fire precautions
Inadequate fire prevention
Fire-trap buildings
Nature
Many features of building construction are closely related to fire safety. Although the modern types of construction generally contain much less combustible material than the old plank-on-heavy-timber or joisted brick-walled buildings, they collapse much sooner when exposed to fire temperature. Unprotected steelwork fails at relatively low temperatures. In cases requiring fire-resistant construction such as hazardous occupancies, vital occupancies such as storage rooms, transformer rooms, electrical substations, laboratories, high-value occupancies where any serious fire would cause excessive property damage and production loss, and in multistorey buildings, fire-resistant construction is not always used.
Incidence
In the UK in 1990 some £3.5 billion of military equipment was held in stores which did not meet government fire protection standards.
Broader
Narrower
Aggravates
Forest fires [in 9 loops]
Injurious accidents [in 1 loop]
Prohibitive cost of basic services [in 5 loops]
Inflammable and flammable substances [in 1 loop]
Decline of traditional wild fire management [in 2 loops]
Aggravated by
Type
(D) Detailed problems