Smoke detectors and house fires: Alarms failed because detectors were not installed or maintained properly

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7371, 2002, Pages 979-980

  Pless, Barry ^a  

^a MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITOR; EDITORIAL; FIRE PROTECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; UNITED KINGDOM; VICTIM;

FIRES; HOUSING; HUMANS; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; SMOKE;

EID: 0037010352     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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