Where the smoke was coming from: risk assessment, social ties, and expanding roles in the evacuation of the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire
| Author(s) | Young, Eileen | |
| Date Accessioned | 2024-09-23T14:38:18Z | |
| Date Available | 2024-09-23T14:38:18Z | |
| Publication Date | 2024 | |
| SWORD Update | 2024-08-31T22:01:19Z | |
| Abstract | The Beverly Hills Supper Club was the second-worst nightclub fire in American history, and we can learn from the tragedy. Using archival data including police statements and evacuation route maps I propose to build a computer-readable dataset and then model the evacuation. This will contribute to the state of fire evacuation science by contributing a dataset that can be used for future modeling, an improved and expanded open-source model of evacuation, and insights gained from examining the overall patterns of behavior that occurred during the fire. This dissertation also includes discussion of policy implications and suggested future directions in fire evacuation research. | |
| Advisor | DeYoung, Sarah | |
| Degree | Ph.D. | |
| Program | University of Delaware, Disaster Science and Management Program | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.58088/p8v6-a291 | |
| Unique Identifier | 1463310059 | |
| URL | https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/35015 | |
| Language | en | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | |
| URI | https://www.proquest.com/pqdtlocal1006271/dissertations-theses/where-smoke-was-coming-risk-assessment-social/docview/3099347026/sem-2?accountid=10457 | |
| Keywords | Agent based modeling | |
| Keywords | Beverly Hills Supper Club | |
| Keywords | Fire evacuation | |
| Keywords | Risk assessment | |
| Keywords | Social ties | |
| Title | Where the smoke was coming from: risk assessment, social ties, and expanding roles in the evacuation of the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire | |
| Type | Thesis |