Nicklas Guldåker
Senior Lecturer
Effects of Door-to-door Fire-prevention information on reducing the occurrence of Residential Fires in Southern Sweden
Author
Summary, in English
Since 2010, the Region South Fire and Rescue Service in
Sweden has conducted over 60 000 fire-prevention home
visits. On-duty fire fighters have gone door-to-door informing residents about general safety procedures in case of a fire. The aim of this ongoing education campaign is to reduce the number of residential structure fires and incidents
with fatal outcomes as well as to improve the level of civil trust. In spite the vast resources spent and large coverage, the number of residential fires has only decreased marginally and the number of fatal incidents has in fact increased in
the entire operational district. When looking at the effects spatially, on subarea level within the operational district, the results diverge. This could imply that the education campaign might be targeted inefficiently in terms of space. The aim of this paper is to map thespatial differences and analyze if a high number of home
visits can be correlated to decreased numbers of residential
fires in some areas and conversely, to increased numbersin others. Through geostatistical methods, the area-based
residuals are analyzed in order to first measure the effects
of the campaign and second to determine which additional
area-based factors that might influence the frequency.
Sweden has conducted over 60 000 fire-prevention home
visits. On-duty fire fighters have gone door-to-door informing residents about general safety procedures in case of a fire. The aim of this ongoing education campaign is to reduce the number of residential structure fires and incidents
with fatal outcomes as well as to improve the level of civil trust. In spite the vast resources spent and large coverage, the number of residential fires has only decreased marginally and the number of fatal incidents has in fact increased in
the entire operational district. When looking at the effects spatially, on subarea level within the operational district, the results diverge. This could imply that the education campaign might be targeted inefficiently in terms of space. The aim of this paper is to map thespatial differences and analyze if a high number of home
visits can be correlated to decreased numbers of residential
fires in some areas and conversely, to increased numbersin others. Through geostatistical methods, the area-based
residuals are analyzed in order to first measure the effects
of the campaign and second to determine which additional
area-based factors that might influence the frequency.
Department/s
- Department of Human Geography
Publishing year
2016-04-02
Language
English
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Document type
Conference paper: abstract
Topic
- Social and Economic Geography
Keywords
- Fire-prevention
- Home-visits
- Area based study
- Sweden
Conference name
AAG Assosiation of American Geographers
Conference date
2016-03-28 - 2016-04-02
Status
Published
Project
- Residential fires in metropolitan areas - spatial differences and fire safety work in the socially fragmented city