3. Results: Fires put out or limited or controlled by automatic water extinguishers The fires analysed in this report are divided into five categories: • Fires resulting in fatalities. • Fires occurring in dwellings or in the rooms of residents or patients. This category includes fires that occurred, for example, in housing units or in the patient rooms of care institutions, excluding hospitals. • Fires that occurred in the public spaces of housing units and care institutions or similar institutional residences, excluding hospitals. Such spaces include lavatories located along corridors, kitchens or lounging areas in housing units. • Fires that occurred in hospitals, and • Fires that occurred in penal institutions. The goal was to establish: • The room of origin or other space where ignition occurred. • The cause of the fire. • The level of protection inside the room of origin. • The number of people involved in the accident. • The number of people in other fire sections at the time. • Injuries and fatalities. • The rescue service response time: The time from when the first unit receives the alert until the rescue team (1+3 personnel) commences effective rescue action. • The position of the nearest able-bodied person at the time of the fire. • The first extinguishing action, and • An assessment of whether the automatic water extinguishing system impacted or prevented fire losses.
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