Download or read book Analysis of Electrical Fire Investigations in Ten Cities written by Alan Gomberg and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interim report describes the progress and conclusions to date on an analysis of electrical fire cases by the Center for Fire Research, National Bureau of Standards for the Consumer Products Safety Commission. The report describes the 110 detailed electrical fire investigation reports from 10 participating cities, and discusses preliminary findings resulting from analysis of the computerized data from those reports. These preliminary findings are being used to guide a follow on efforts to be reported on at a later date, to obtain, encode and analyze additional data from the original 110 cases, in order to better define and describe the most significant failure modes of electrical components and the sequences of events which lead to electrical fire ignition.