Situational awareness for supporting building fire emergency response: Information needs, information sources, and implementation requirements

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 17-28

  Li, Nan ^a   Yang, Zheng ^a   Ghahramani, Ali ^a   Becerik Gerber, Burcin ^a   Soibelman, Lucio ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Building fire emergency; Card game; First responder; Situational awareness; Survey

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; EMERGENCY SERVICES; EMPLOYMENT; FIRES;

BUILDING FIRE EMERGENCY; BUILDING FIRES; CARD GAMES; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; FIRE EMERGENCIES; FIRST RESPONDERS; INFORMATION ITEMS; INFORMATION SOURCES; PROPERTY LOSS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84890158204     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2013.11.010     Document Type: Article

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