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What is Fire Engineering?
The International Standards Organisation (ISO) defines fire safety engineering as:
"The application of engineering principles, rules and expert judgement based on a scientific appreciation of the fire phenomena, of the effects of fire, and the reaction and behaviour of people, in order to:
- save life, protect property and preserve the environment and heritage;
- quantify the hazards and risk of fire and its effects;
- evaluate analytically the optimum protective and preventative measure necessary to limit, within prescibed levels, the consequences of fire."
More information is available from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_engineering