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Urban disorder and the shape of belief the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman / by Smith, Carl S. Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995 . xi, 395 p. : Date: 1995 Availability: No items available:

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Urban disorder and the shape of belief the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman / by Smith, Carl S. Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995 . xi, 395 p. : Date: 1995 Availability: No items available:

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Painting the landscape with fire longleaf pines and fire ecology / by Latham, Den. Publication: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2013 . xv, 218 p. : Date: 2013 Availability: No items available:

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Awful splendour a fire history of Canada / by Pyne, Stephen J., Publication: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2007 . xxix, 549 p. : Date: 2007 Availability: No items available:

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Igniting the Caribbean's past fire in British West Indian history / by Richardson, Bonham C., Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004 . xvi, 233 p. : Date: 2004 Availability: No items available:

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Lords of chaos the bloody rise of the satanic metal underground / by Moynihan, Michael. Publication: Los Angeles, Calif. : Feral House, 2003 . xviii, 405 p. : Date: 2003 Availability: No items available:

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Guidelines for evaluating process plant buildings for external explosions, fires, and toxic releases   Publication: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012 . xxvi, 204 p. : , Rev. ed. of: Guidelines for evaluating process plant buildings for external explosions and fires. c1996. | Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Objective 4 1.2 Building Siting Evaluation Process 5 1.3 Selection of Approach 6 1.4 Background 6 1.5 Phillips, Pasadena, Texas USA: Propylene HDPE Unit VCE ad BLEVEs 10 1.6 Evolution of Design and Siting Practices for Buildings in Process Plants 18 1.7 Organization of the Book 20 2. Management Overview 21 2.1 Process Overview 21 2.2 Management Responsibilities under API RP-752 and API RP-753 27 3. Determining the Scope of the Building Siting Evaluation 31 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 Buildings Considered 31 3.3 Scenario Selection 36 4. Building Siting Evaluation Criteria 45 4.1 Introduction 45 4.2 Occupant Vulnerability 46 4.3 Criteria for Existing Buildings Exposed to Explosion Hazards 48 4.4 Criteria for Fires 58 4.5 Criteria for Toxic Exposures 62 4.6 Criteria for Building Upgrades and New Buildings 64 4.7 Risk Criteria 65 5. Explosion Hazards 71 5.1 Introduction 71 5.2 Select Explosion Approach 72 5.3 Modeling and Quantifying and Explosion Hazards 74 5.4 Building Response to Explosion Hazards 78 5.5 Occupant VULNERABILITY to Explosion Hazards 90 5.6 Actions Required at the Completion of the Evaluation 90 6. Fire Hazards Assessment 93 6.1 Introduction 93 6.2 Determining if a Fire Hazard Exists 97 6.3 Spacing Table Approach 97 6.4 Performing a Consequence-Based or Risk-Based building siting evaluation for Fire 99 6.5 Occupant Response to Fire Hazards 105 6.6 Defining the Fire Protection Concept 106 7. Toxic Hazards Assessment 109 7.1 Introduction 109 7.2 Determining if a Toxic Hazard Exists 109 7.3 Building siting evaluation for toxics 111 7.4 Defining the Toxic Protection Concept 120 7.5 Evacuation vs. Sheltering-In-Place 120 8. Frequency and Probability Assessment 125 8.1 Introduction 125 8.2 Developing a Scenario List 127 8.3 Calculation of Frequency of Initiating Event or accident 129 8.4 Probability and Frequency of Final Outcomes 144 8.5 Unit-Based Outcome Frequencies 149 9. Risk Assessment 151 9.1 Introduction 151 9.2 Risk Measure Types 154 9.3 Calculating Risk 158 9.4 Interpretation and Use of Risk Measures 169 10. Mitigation Plans and Ongoing Risk Management 171 10.1 Development of Mitigation Plans 171 10.2 Building Modifications 177 11. Managing the Building Siting Process 185 11.1 Management of Change 185 11.2 Documentation Requirements 187 11.3 Documentation of Mitigation Systems Criteria and Performance 188 11.4 Maintaining Documentation "EverGreen" 189. Date: 2012 Availability: No items available:

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To burn or not to burn summary of the forum on urban/wildland fire, January 26, 2001 : a report to the Natural Disasters Roundtable / by Platt, Rutherford H. Publication: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 2001 . iv, 13 p. : Date: 2001 Availability: No items available:

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Lords of chaos the bloody rise of the satanic metal underground / by Moynihan, Michael. Publication: Los Angeles, Calif. : Feral House, 2003 . xviii, 405 p. : Date: 2003 Availability: No items available:

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Guidelines for evaluating process plant buildings for external explosions, fires, and toxic releases   Publication: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012 . xxvi, 204 p. : , Rev. ed. of: Guidelines for evaluating process plant buildings for external explosions and fires. c1996. | Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Objective 4 1.2 Building Siting Evaluation Process 5 1.3 Selection of Approach 6 1.4 Background 6 1.5 Phillips, Pasadena, Texas USA: Propylene HDPE Unit VCE ad BLEVEs 10 1.6 Evolution of Design and Siting Practices for Buildings in Process Plants 18 1.7 Organization of the Book 20 2. Management Overview 21 2.1 Process Overview 21 2.2 Management Responsibilities under API RP-752 and API RP-753 27 3. Determining the Scope of the Building Siting Evaluation 31 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 Buildings Considered 31 3.3 Scenario Selection 36 4. Building Siting Evaluation Criteria 45 4.1 Introduction 45 4.2 Occupant Vulnerability 46 4.3 Criteria for Existing Buildings Exposed to Explosion Hazards 48 4.4 Criteria for Fires 58 4.5 Criteria for Toxic Exposures 62 4.6 Criteria for Building Upgrades and New Buildings 64 4.7 Risk Criteria 65 5. Explosion Hazards 71 5.1 Introduction 71 5.2 Select Explosion Approach 72 5.3 Modeling and Quantifying and Explosion Hazards 74 5.4 Building Response to Explosion Hazards 78 5.5 Occupant VULNERABILITY to Explosion Hazards 90 5.6 Actions Required at the Completion of the Evaluation 90 6. Fire Hazards Assessment 93 6.1 Introduction 93 6.2 Determining if a Fire Hazard Exists 97 6.3 Spacing Table Approach 97 6.4 Performing a Consequence-Based or Risk-Based building siting evaluation for Fire 99 6.5 Occupant Response to Fire Hazards 105 6.6 Defining the Fire Protection Concept 106 7. Toxic Hazards Assessment 109 7.1 Introduction 109 7.2 Determining if a Toxic Hazard Exists 109 7.3 Building siting evaluation for toxics 111 7.4 Defining the Toxic Protection Concept 120 7.5 Evacuation vs. Sheltering-In-Place 120 8. Frequency and Probability Assessment 125 8.1 Introduction 125 8.2 Developing a Scenario List 127 8.3 Calculation of Frequency of Initiating Event or accident 129 8.4 Probability and Frequency of Final Outcomes 144 8.5 Unit-Based Outcome Frequencies 149 9. Risk Assessment 151 9.1 Introduction 151 9.2 Risk Measure Types 154 9.3 Calculating Risk 158 9.4 Interpretation and Use of Risk Measures 169 10. Mitigation Plans and Ongoing Risk Management 171 10.1 Development of Mitigation Plans 171 10.2 Building Modifications 177 11. Managing the Building Siting Process 185 11.1 Management of Change 185 11.2 Documentation Requirements 187 11.3 Documentation of Mitigation Systems Criteria and Performance 188 11.4 Maintaining Documentation "EverGreen" 189. Date: 2012 Availability: No items available:

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The Richmond Theater fire early America's first great disaster / by Baker, Meredith Henne, Publication: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012 . x, 317 p. : Date: 2012 Availability: No items available:

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Scorched earth how the fires of Yellowstone changed America / by Barker, Rocky. Publication: Washington : Island Press, 2005 . 277 p. : Date: 2005 Availability: No items available:

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