To design safe buildings, fire safety engineers must understand how occupants behave during a fire emergency. In simple terms, the time occupants take to evacuate to a place of safety must not exceed the time it takes for fire conditions to become untenable within the...
In this article we review the 2014 Lacrosse apartment fire - the background, case, liability and appeal. The fire Jean-Francois Gubitta was a French backpacker in Australia on a working holiday. He had moved into Apartment 805 of the 23 storey Lacrosse apartment tower...