Blaze: The Forensics of Fire (Black Box) - Hardcover

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This volume is not just the story of some of the most dreadful fires of modern times, it also follows the story once the fire has been put out - the work of investigators who piece together the cause of the ignition, the mechanism by which the fire spread, and even the occupant's behaviour. Their work leads to discoveries that form the basis of legislation, making buildings safer places. The text features fire-fighters, fire-service investigators, fire-safety engineers and forensic fire-scientists.

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Nicholas Faith is a journalist and a writer for British television. He has written on topics as diverse as cognac, Bordeaux, Swiss banks, trains, trucks, ships, disasters, and forensic science. He has served as Industrial Editor of the Sunday Times and Assistant Editor of The Economist. He lives in London.
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Rockmaster Three may have sung "The roof is on fire," but it's no party to be in a burning buildingAand no picnic to find out how fires started or to catch those who set them. London-based journalist Faith (Black Box; Mayday) has made a specialty of disaster-detectives: his taut new volume chronicles fire investigators, the professionals who determine the probable cause and course of a dangerous fire after it has been put out. Faith devotes a chapter to a 1985 casino fire in Puerto Rico, in which modern materials scientists collaborated with old-fashioned cops: present-day fire investigation, Faith explains, dates from that event. Another chapter treats other conflagrations, in the London Underground and in Dublin's Stardust disco. Faith examines the origins of and flaws in fire codes, and the surprising causes of several blazes. He devotes several chapters to arson and arsonistsAincluding to Seattle's still-mysterious late-'80s blazes set with rocket fuel and to a Philadelphia tire fire near I-95, set by a ring of teenage serial arsonists. A series of California blazes turned out, disturbingly, to be the work of a professional fire investigator, who actually wroteAand sent to a publisherAa "fact-based" novel detailing his crimes. Finally, Faith examines evacuations: how might planners understand what people do when inside a building on fire, and how might designers help them escape? Faith has picked an intrinsically riveting topic, one that combines police work, physics, design and the social sciences. Half John McPhee, half Law & Order, his book is very hard to put down. (Aug.)
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  • PublisherChannel 4 1999
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0752217399
  • ISBN 13 9780752217390
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages192
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