Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

The paper is intended to address the relation between fire damage and time factors related to fire fighting activities. Using newly proposed models, the paper studies the probability of exceedance, i.e., the probability of fire damage area to exceed certain levels, and compare model parameters over a wide range of time intervals. As a result, some evidence was obtained that the faster a fire is responded to, the smaller the fire damage is, based on fire statistics of Japan.