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Rescue work is one of the main objectives of firefighting. To minimize casualties and financial losses, fire service agencies consider sufficient water supply for fire suppression to be the key among the many factors affecting firefighting. The difficulty of collecting water usage data from actual fire scenes has confined the research on water allocation for firefighting in either domestic or international arena mostly to theoretical studies. Consequently, the use of firefighting water resources often follows empirical methods or related government legislation, rather than being an effective practice verified by in-depth field investigation. This study, based on fire engineering theory, employs heat release rate combined with uncertainty analysis to develop a model for estimating water requirements for firefighting. Using firefighting cases at Taoyuan County in Taiwan, R.O.C., a quantitative analysis of the field data was integrated with uncertainty analysis to evaluate the suitability and uncertainty of the proposed firefighting water supply model. The result indicates that the proposed model of firefighting water requirements can effectively reflect water demand in an actual fire incident. Among the 100 cases tested, the actual firefighting water consumptions are averaged as 44.2 metric tons whereas the mean difference between the derived water requirements and the actual amount is approximately ±15 metric tons.

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A Water Requirements Estimation Model for Fire Suppression: A Study Based on Integrated Uncertainty Analysis

Chang

Huang

2005

Fire Technol

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