Fire Protection Handbook

Since its first edition more than a century ago, the Fire Protection Handbook has endeavored to fulfill the needs of the fire protection community for a single-source handbook on the state of the art in fire protection and fire prevention practices. The Fire Protection Handbook has changed significantly in the past 100 years. While the body of knowledge in the field of fire protection has proliferated, the Handbook has kept pace, expanding from 183 pages in the first edition to over 1750 pages in this 16th edition. As the most pressing concerns of fire protection have evolved, from property protection concerns of citywide conflagrations in the late 1800s, through life safety concerns for public occupancies at the beginning of the 1900s, to an overall systems approach in use today, the number of subjects covered by the Handbook has increased greatly.