I would like to offer a suggestion to Dennis' recommendation. Rather than
reporting only large fire loss or death, could a central depository be set
up to accumulate ALL significant fire emergencies. We recently had a fire
in our student residence hall resulting in $4,000.00 damage but no
injuries. The fire was a standard text book grease fire (the occupant put
the grease on the stove and went to answer the phone etc. etc. etc.)The
occupant recently had our safety training which because it was documented,
she (actually her father) had to pay the damages. This type of information
would be very useful to a great many safety professionals in putting
together convincing justification to have safety programs initiated. I
welcome any other thoughts. Dennis. I will be glad to support any document
survey you can set up.

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Randy Horman wrote:

> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:44:49 -0400
> From: Randy Horman <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: International Association of Campus Fire Safety Officials
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> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: College fires statistics
>
> Dennis,
> I will pass along this information to the list.
>
> ->When researching the number and types of college-related fires, looking for
> >info on injuries, deaths, and loss figures, I found that even the NFIRS
> >statistics leave much to be desired. Even the "Fire in the US" report only
> >has general information through 1997.
> >Would it be possible for all members of the network to issue an email
> >whenever a significant fire/emergency incident (injuries, deaths, large
> >dollar loss) occurs? This might assist some of us who relate these numbers to
> >our local incidents, and prepare educational programs for the residents.
> >Thanks for your help!
> >
> >Dennis Kirin
> >Oberlin Fire (OH)
>
>
>
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