This paper aims to characterize dynamics of a fire in the Large-Scale Demonstrator Malveira Fire Test, a full-scale fire experiment carried out in a disused industrial building in Portugal. The Malveira Fire Test is the second stage in the series of full-scale experimental programmes developed for the Real Fires for the Safe Design of Tall Buildings project at the University of Edinburgh. This experiment is intended to act as a real-building demonstration of fire dynamics in large open-floor plan compartments and has as objective to provide a data set to contrast methodologies aiming at design fire inputs representative of real fire dynamics in compartments typical of tall buildings. The Malveira Fire Test showed three distinct fire behaviour modes characterised by the ratio between the velocities of the fire front (") and the burnout front (#$

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