What Fire Statistics Tell Us About Our Fire and Building Codes for Housing and Small Buildings and Fire Risk for Occupants of those Structures

摘要

Annual reports on fire losses in Canada and the United States are in part, report cards on the efficacy of fire safety provisions I our building and fire codes and on the efforts to reduce risk for the occupants of those buildings. This paper attempts to asses what recent fire-loss statistics indicate about how successful those have been.