Domestic fire risk: a narrative review of social science literature and implications for further research

Clark, Adele; Smith, Jessica; Conroy, Carole

doi:10.1080/13669877.2014.913660

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“…The understanding of fire risk in supported housing is framed by multiple levels (Clark et al, 2015), which might be one reason for the ambiguity of the influences of fire safety. For example, tenants who are smokers or alcohol or drug users individually have higher fire risks and live near each other in congregate housing settings.…”

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“…Reducing the risk of domestic fire incidents is a substantial task in public health interventions. Therefore, the questions of how fire safety as an intervention is better understood and how it is experienced in daily life should be addressed in a wider social context as the authors of a review recommended (Clark et al, 2015). Accordingly, a framework with multiple levels ranging from the individual to societal provide as a more complete understanding of fire risk than traditional fire risk research.…”

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The ambiguous influences of fire safety on people with mental health problems in supported housing

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Over the last few decades, various housing types for people with mental health problems have been developed for use in the community. These housing types differ in their objectives, staff support and design. In this study, we focus on how fire safety influences the lives of tenants in supported housing. The qualitative study was designed with a multi-sited ethnography approach. Fieldwork was conducted in seven different Norwegian supported housing settings in 2017 with 105 participants (29 tenants, 70 staff, five managers, and one planner). The empirical data consist of field notes, recorded interviews and pictures, which were analyzed with grounded theory and situational analysis. The analysis reconstructed how fire safety was organized and tenants' experiences of it. These experiences could be positive (such as feeling protected) or negative (such as feeling annoyed or under surveillance). The tenants coped differently with these situations, and fire safety sets boundaries for tenants. Overall, fire safety was organized differently in the supported housing settings we looked at comparison to in most of the common housing units in Norway. The influences of fire safety on daily life can be understood as ambiguous and can be interpreted as a normalizing factor in a risk society. Thus, we emphasize the need for appropriate and well-considered fire safety as a public health intervention in supported housing.

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“…However, the mechanism through which information about fire risk is transmitted and communicated among individuals, groups, and institutions is affected by the space and time relationship (Plough and Krimsky 1987). Spatial proximity is a key driver of dissemination of information about fire risk and preventive measures (Clark et al 2015;Ma 2015). Individuals are more likely to be better physically connected and socially linked to others when they are geographically close (Hagerstrand 1968).…”

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“…It also hinges on an individual's perception of fire risk, often exhibited by in situ behavior such as alcohol drinking habits and preparedness to respond to threat from fire. More broadly, fire risk is influenced by the size and characteristics of the population at risk or exposed to a fire hazard, and the levels of community resilience, which reflect the sustained ability to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations (Leth et al 1998;Jennings 2013;Clark et al 2015). Fire risk, therefore, is difficult to examine as it is driven by a multitude of interwoven factors.…”

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Modeling Spatial–Temporal Dynamics of Urban Residential Fire Risk Using a Markov Chain Technique

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2018

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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This article applies a Markov chain method to compute the probability of residential fire occurrence based on past fire history. Fitted with the fire incidence data gathered over a period of 10 years in Melbourne, Australia, the spatially-integrated fire risk model predicts the likely occurrence of fire incidents using space and time as key model parameters. The mapped probabilities of fire occurrence across Melbourne show a city-centric spatial pattern where inner-city areas are relatively more vulnerable to a fire than outer suburbia. Fire risk reduces in a neighborhood when there is at least one fire in the last 1 month. The results show that the time threshold of reduced fire risk after the fire occurrence is about 2 months. Fire risk increases when there is no fire in the last 1 month within the third-order neighborhood (within 5 km). A fire that occurs within this distance range, however, has no significant effect on reducing fire risk level within the neighborhood. The spatial-temporal dependencies of fire risk provide new empirical evidence useful for fire agencies to effectively plan and implement geo-targeted fire risk interventions and education programs to mitigate potential fire risk in areas where and when they are most needed.

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“…include their ability to make decisions and how that may be influenced by being in a stressful environment such as a dwelling fire, their ability to observe and interpret danger signals with subsequent estimation of risk, and their mobility to respond to that risk appropriately (Kobes 2010). The challenge of managing potentially conflicting impulses driven by cognition and emotion in a fire evacuation situation is well recognised (Kinateder 2015, Clark 2015a. Behaviours identified in adults should not be generalised to children and young people.…”

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Children and young people’s behaviour in accidental dwelling fires: A systematic review of the qualitative literature

2017

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Children and young people are considered one of the most vulnerable population groups when exposed to accidental dwelling fires. Understanding how children behave in these circumstances and the reasons for their decision making are important to support rescue and fire safety education. We undertook a systematic review of the qualitative literature to identify studies where children and young people were asked to recount their experiences of being in an accidental dwelling fire in order to inform UK Fire and Rescue Service training and fire safety education programmes. We found no studies designed specifically to explore children's behaviours in dwelling fires, and only four studies (including 39 children's stories) where their behaviours had been recorded coincidentally to the main study aim. The evidence arising from these stories was frequently incomplete, often out of date (15-20 years old), and 38/39 (97%) of stories were from the United States. This review indicates there is inadequate evidence of the current lived experience of children in accidental dwelling fires to support fire and rescue services in either their fire and rescue training or community fire safety education activities, particularly for non-US countries.

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Domestic fire risk: a narrative review of social science literature and implications for further research

Cited by 19 publications

References 24 publications

The ambiguous influences of fire safety on people with mental health problems in supported housing

The ambiguous influences of fire safety on people with mental health problems in supported housing

Modeling Spatial–Temporal Dynamics of Urban Residential Fire Risk Using a Markov Chain Technique

Children and young people’s behaviour in accidental dwelling fires: A systematic review of the qualitative literature

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