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In 2006 Communities and Local Government (CLG) Sustainable Buildings Division commissioned BRE to carry out a three year project titled Fire Spread in Car Parks. The existing guidance for fire safety in car parks in England and Wales is in Approved Document B (Fire safety) to the Building Regulations in England and Wales (AD B). The basis for this guidance for fire safety strategies in car parks relates to fire initiation and fire growth involving cars whose designs are decades old. There has been increasing concern about the consequences of fires in car parks associated with modern car design (e.g. plastic fuel tanks) and how these fires may spread to other vehicles parked adjacently and nearby. This concern has been heightened by the entry into the market place of cars powered by alternative fuels such as LPG. Fires in car parks are rare, and, although there have been few deaths or injuries recorded to date in the UK, there are concerns regarding new and emerging risks from modern cars and alternative fuels. There was a need to gather up-to-date information on fires involving cars in car parks in order that the current fire safety guidance could be reviewed and, if necessary, updated. The overall aim of the project has therefore been to gather information on the nature of fires involving the current design of cars and to use this new knowledge as a basis, if necessary, for updating current guidance in AD B (and possibly other Approved Documents) on fire safety strategies for car parks. This report describes the project, the findings and conclusions.

Fire behavior. --- Fire spread. --- Garages. --- Parking facilities. --- Vehicles.

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Open access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment.

agricultural fires --- wildfires --- laboratory fires --- fire use --- fire impacts --- fire behavior --- Physics --- Fire --- Feu --- Fire. --- Chemistry --- Combustion --- Heat

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Arson --- Child psychotherapy --- Fire behavior in children --- Pyromania in children --- Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders --- rehabilitation

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Rural and urban residents accustomed to seeing fire engines racing with sirens wailing and lights flashing are unaware of the problem of juvenile-set fires. Firesetting behaviors among children and adolescents are serious and have associated with it, serious individual and societal costs. Every year, several thousand children and adolescents aged 14 years and younger in the United States alone are injured or killed. Firesetting, pyromania and arson are topics that have existed in the literature since Sigmund Freud explained firesetting through his psychoanalytic model. Helen Yarnell's studies

Fire behavior in children. --- Child psychology. --- Behavior, Child --- Child behavior --- Child study --- Children --- Pediatric psychology --- Child development --- Developmental psychology --- Child firesetting --- Fire curiosity in children --- Fire setting by children --- Firesetting by children --- Child psychology --- Fire --- Psychology --- Psychological aspects

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This text reference provides state-of-the-art information on juvenile firesetters and reviews the current research on youthful firesetters and arsonists. The work illustrates methods of fire scene investigation and assessment relating to child-parent and family factors. This information is then used to prescribe interventions with the individual along with community-wide programs. The work also provides current information on fire safety education and curricula, with explicit training materials. Finally, the book addresses the need for residential treatment centers and training schools on meth

Pyromania in children --- Fire behavior in children --- Arson --- Child psychotherapy --- Incendiarism --- Child firesetting --- Fire curiosity in children --- Fire setting by children --- Firesetting by children --- Child mental health services --- Child psychiatry --- Children --- Psychotherapy --- Firemaking --- Offenses against property --- Child psychology --- Fire --- Conduct disorders in children --- Impulse control disorders in children --- Diseases --- Treatment --- Psychological aspects