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Four property classes account for the majority of high-rise fires: office buildings, hotels, apartment buildings, and facilities that care for the sick. Automatic fire protection equipment and fire-resistive construction are more common in high-rise buildings that have fires than in other buildings of the same property use that have fires. The risks of fire, fire death, and direct property damage due to fire tend to be lower in high-rise buildings than in other buildings of the same property use.
NFPA report
NFPA's "
High-Rise Building Fires
" report, by John R. Hall, Jr.
NFPA fire investigations
Rockefeller Center, New York City,
10/10/96
Residential, North York, ON
, 1/6/95, 6 fatalities
Elderly Housing, Johnson City, TN
, 12/24/89
First Interstate Bank
, Los Angeles, CA, 5/4/88
Alexis Nihon Plaza
, Montreal, Canada, 10/26/86
Prudential Building
, Boston, MA, 1/2/86