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Item Annotated Bibliography on Fire Science(Disaster Research Center, 2007) Torres, Manuel; Barsky, Lauren; Aguirre, Benigno E.; Poteyeva, RitaThis annotated bibliography is a product of the Disaster Research Center’s ongoing study of search and rescue (S&R) activity in fires which uses the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) data collected by the United States Fire Administration (USFA) to model fire injury and death. It was compiled as part of our examination of civilian death and injury due to structural fires. It focuses on such areas as structural collapse, civilian injury and mortality, firefighter injury and death, causes of fires, behaviors related to injury and death, and the process of search and rescue in fires. It presents a synthesis of several key areas of interest within the emerging discipline. While it is not an exhaustive bibliography representative of all areas of study, it provides an initial overview of several key areas and could serve as a starting point to research. Available findings from various studies could be compared to replicate and augment existing knowledge, as well to develop theories on the effects of the presence of S&R on morbidity and on the causes of civilian injury and mortality.Item Behavior of Victims Trapped in Collapsed Structures: Summary of Findings(Disaster Research Center, 2005) Poteyeva, RitaThe importance of knowledge of human behavior during disasters has been traditionally recognized at a meso level. Social scientists and other disaster researchers have mainly explored human behavior at the level of the community, and not of a particular individual. More is known about the performance of building structures during disasters than about the behavior of building occupants. Indeed, the search in the scholarly and professional literature yielded only a few results dealing extensively with the behavior of particular individuals located in specific buildings during various disasters (Aguirre 1995; Durkin 1984, 1987, 1988). Relevant information about trapped victims is found within an intersecting terrain of a range of disciplines: engineering, architecture, the social sciences, disaster epidemiology and other medical sciences.