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 17th 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.