... ultimate outcomes. Post-event inquiries into technological disasters have revealed actions and inactions which created or aggravated subsequent consequences and their aftermath. Findings Decisions taken at a Japanese school between the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and details of the 2017 fire...

...Rex Bringula; Francis Balahadia Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the results of spatiotemporal analysis of the 3,506 fire incidents in the city of Manila from 2011 to 2016. Design/methodology/approach A spatiotemporal and statistical analysis was carried out to determine...

...Rebecca Jones; Sarah Lee; Darryl Maybery; Alexander McFarlane Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the perspectives of local residents regarding the impact of the long-duration Hazelwood open cut coal mine fire in rural Australia. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach...

... and severity of errors (Blanco et al., 1996). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Social networks Learning Adaptability Emergency management Bushfire Fire Australia Social network theorists have explored the significance of social communication and network structures...

... fire by taking precautions. It also aims to be helpful for authorities coping during the event of occurrence of fire. Design/methodology/approach The methodology paradigm applied here is based on knowledge‐based and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) techniques. Knowledge‐based criteria involve...

...Muhammad Masood Rafi; Syed Wasiuddin; Salman Hameed Siddiqui Purpose There is an acute shortage of infrastructure to deal with fire hazard in big cities in Pakistan. Consequently, fire hazard poses a serious threat to economic and social activites in these cities. Unfortunately, the scale...

...Chang Woon Nam Purpose A natural gas pipeline accident could prove to be a dangerous fire source in city centers. Taking the explosive danger caused by natural gas leakage as an example, the purpose of this paper, based on the box model, is to examine how such an environmental hazard can...

...Zissis Maditinos; Christos Vassiliadis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of mega fire catastrophic phenomena and bring out some useful aspects for more effective pre‐, during and post‐disaster management of mega fires. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses two very...

... of inquiry into the three fire disasters in the country were used to analyze the data. Findings Data demonstrated that these disasters were not sudden cataclysmic events but developed in phases. Pre‐disaster period is found to consist of four phases, namely, operation, incubation period, forewarning...

...A.A. Dare; S.A. Oke; K.L. Olanrewaju Purpose In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of fuel‐truck accidents involving fire outbreaks in Oyo State, Nigeria. These accident explosions have mechanical‐induced actions on the road, with potential costly damages...

... electricity incidents have been arranged and classified into fire, and explosions. Findings Static electricity can be the cause of problems in many areas of industry. It presents a source of ignition for flammable gases, liquids and powders. It can cause fires and explosions in tankers, aircraft...

... to the precise geographical location, physiography, drainage, geology, geomorphology and landslides is given below. Ravindra K. Pande can be contacted at: pande_ravindra@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Natural disasters Soil erosion Landslides Fire Geology India...

...Biswajeet Pradhan; Mohd Dini Hairi Bin Suliman; Mohamad Arshad Bin Awang Purpose In a tropical country like Malaysia, forest fire is a very common natural and man‐made disaster that prevails in the whole South East Asian region throughout the year. Recently, the haze problem in Malaysia has...

... of unsustainable development can become entangled with traditional forms of conflict in a way that can widen and deepen the latter in Iraq. Ali Mohamed Al‐Damkhi can be contacted at: aboanas58@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Kuwait Iraq Warfare Oil industry Fire Sustainable...

...Mohammad A. Hassanain Purpose The objectives of this paper are to present an assessment for the consideration of fire safety during the design stages of school facilities in Saudi Arabia; and to present the development of a fire risk assessment survey tool whereby existing school facilities can...

... with levels of adoption of protective measures). Douglas Paton can be contacted at: Douglas.Paton@utas.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Fire Hazards Risk management Behaviour A core objective of contemporary risk management is facilitating the capacity...

... evaluation protocol designed to assess the wildfire, drought and flood mitigation provisions in comprehensive plans. This study focuses on flood, fire and drought mitigation planning because these hazards dramatically affect the Western and Southwestern US and because their impacts are compounded by a fast...

...Iwan Setiawan; A.R. Mahmud; S. Mansor; A.R. Mohamed Shariff; A.A. Nuruddin Peat swamp forest fire hazard areas were identified and mapped by integrating GIS‐grid‐based and multi‐criteria analysis to provide valuable information about the areas most likely to be affected by fire in the Pekan...

... and in peat swamp forest fires in order to assist in providing decision support systems for emergency operations and disaster prevention. Landslides are the result of a wide variety of processes, including geological, geomorphological and meteorological factors. Spatial technology has the ability to assess...

...Chandrakantan Subramaniam In recent years, there were several incidents of fire in secondary schools in Malaysia. A study conducted by the Ministry of Education has found that there were outbreaks of fire in 22 primary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher learning for the year 1999...