Effects of Door-to-door Fire-prevention information on reducing the occurrence of Residential Fires in Southern Sweden

Mona Tykesson; Nicklas Guldåker; Per-Olof Hallin; Jerry Nilsson

Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2016 Apr 2
Event	AAG Assosiation of American Geographers: Pyrogeography III - Duration: 2016 Mar 28 → 2016 Apr 2

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Conference	AAG Assosiation of American Geographers
Period	2016/03/28 → 2016/04/02

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Social and Economic Geography

Free keywords

Fire-prevention
Home-visits
Area based study
Sweden

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Bostadsbränder i storstadsområden – teoretiska utgångspunkter
Hallin, P.-O., Guldåker, N., Nilsson, J. & Tykesson Klubien, M., 2018, Malmö Universitet och Lunds universitet: Department of Human Geography, Lund University. 20 p. (BOSTADSBRÄNDER I STORSTADSOMRÅDEN ; no. 2)
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Brandsäkerhetsarbete i den socialt fragmenterade staden
Guldåker, N., Hallin, P.-O., Tykesson Klubien, M. & Nilsson, J., 2018, Malmö universitet och Lunds Universitet: Department of Human Geography, Lund University. 49 p. (BOSTADSBRÄNDER I STORSTADSOMRÅDEN; no. 5)
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DIFFERENT SPATIAL VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR FIRE PREVENTION IN STOCKHOLM AND GÖTEBORG
Guldåker, N., 2018, p. 4-5. 2 p.
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Residential fires in metropolitan areas - spatial differences and fire safety work in the socially fragmented city
Guldåker, N. (Researcher), Tykesson Klubien, M. (Researcher), Hallin, P. O. (PI) & Nilsson, J. (Researcher)
2014/07/30 → 2017/12/31
Project: Research

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Effects of Door-to-door Fire-prevention information on reducing the occurrence of Residential Fires in Southern Sweden

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Bostadsbränder i storstadsområden – teoretiska utgångspunkter

Brandsäkerhetsarbete i den socialt fragmenterade staden

DIFFERENT SPATIAL VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR FIRE PREVENTION IN STOCKHOLM AND GÖTEBORG

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Residential fires in metropolitan areas - spatial differences and fire safety work in the socially fragmented city

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