Managing evacuating people from facilities during a fire emergency

Facilities

Volumn 17, Issue , 1999, Pages 325-330

  Benthorn, Lars ^a   Frantzich, Håkan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Communications; Decision making; Fire; Fire alarm; IKEA; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986173929     PISSN: 02632772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02632779910278737     Document Type: Article

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