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High-casualty fires (HCFs) involving 3 or more fatalities from the Fire Statistical Year Book of China and the Chinese Fire Services from 2002 to 2009 were analyzed. This study investigates the frequency-size power-law distribution and time-scaling property of HCFs. The results show that HCFs exhibit a frequency-size power-law distribution regardless of whether the fire size is represented by fatalities,...
The technology of correspondence analysis was applied to high-casualty fire data in China. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between fatality levels and influence factors that involve place, cause, time of day, month, year and province. The variable fatality in a fire has four levels: 3, 4–5, 6–9 and⩾10. The results show that hotels, welfare houses and hospitals tend to be...
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