The who, what, where and why of waking to fire alarms: A review

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 623-639

  Bruck, Dorothy ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; FIRE PROTECTION; FLAME RESEARCH; SLEEP RESEARCH; SMOKE DETECTORS;

AUDITORY AROUSAL THRESHOLDS (AAT);

FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035480206     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-7112(01)00025-X     Document Type: Article

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