Fire Accidents Report: Causes, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies

This report provides an analysis of fire accidents, exploring their causes, impacts, and potential solutions. The study highlights the link between climate change and increased fire frequency and severity, particularly focusing on the role of rising temperatures, reduced humidity, and strong winds. The report also investigates the prevalence of electrical fires in residential buildings, specifically during winter months, and discusses the need for adherence to environmental standards to curb these incidents. References from the study include statistical analysis of electrical fire outbreaks in buildings, risk analysis of photovoltaic systems on building fire safety, and the impact of heat, fire, electricity, lightning, radiation, and gases on forensic histopathology.

Rising Issue Fire Accidents
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Outbreak of Fire
With the recent events of the fire accidents, there
have been several researches that links its study
between the core concepts of the climate change
and the increased level of frequency or the severity
in the fire weather.
The periods have been characterized by the high
chances of the fire weather and the recurrence in
the combination of the high temperatures in the
context of the lower levels of humidity , lower
incidences of rainfall and often it is characterized by
the strong winds with some notable anomalies that
occurs in a fewer regions (Skelton, 2019).

The rising level of global temperature and the
more frequent heat waves and the associated
level of droughts in some of the regions will
increase the incidents of the fire accidents with
the help of the stimulation of the hot and the
dry conditions.
This will promote the fire weather, which can
be used as an overall measure of the different
impacts of the climate change on the various
risks occurring due to the fire incidents
(Adekunle & Alo 2016).

Fires that take place due to Heat, Smoke
and Electricity
The recent reports reveal that the fires that
break out in the residential buildings almost
account to 83% of the family dwellings.
The residential buildings where the most
frequent types of the electrical fires have
taken place are mainly in the winter months
of January which accounts to almost 17% of
the total outbreak of the electric fires.
Although there are various incidents o the
electrical fires which accounts for 13% of the
incidents in the vacant crawl spaces.

Fires that take place due to Heat, Smoke
and Electricity
Electrocution along with the several
explosion incidents with the fire cases are
often complex in its claim structure from a
variety of the negligent type of environmental
situations.
In order to curb the rising incidences of fire
due to electrocution, the emerging industries
need to abide by the basic environmental
norms and the environmental standards as
the most ethical code of conduct.

References
Adekunle, A., Asuquo, A., Essang, N., Umanah, I. I., Ibe, K. E., &
Alo, A. B. (2016). Tatistical analysis of electrical fire outbreaks in
buildings: Case study of Lagos State, Nigeria. Journal of
Sustainable Development Studies, 9(1).
Dettmeyer, R. B. (2018). Heat, fire, electricity, lightning, radiation,
and gases. In Forensic Histopathology (pp. 187-206). Springer,
Cham.
Mu, Y., Li, J., Ren, C., Zhang, W., & Zhang, X. (2019, October). Risk
of photovoltaic systems on building fire safety in China. In Risk
Analysis Based on Data and Crisis Response Beyond Knowledge:
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Risk Analysis
and Crisis Response (RACR 2019), October 15-19, 2019, Athens,
Greece (p. 404). CRC Press.
Skelton, P. (2019). Fire ant fears. Electrical Connection, (Summer
2019), 36.