Citation

Tanaka H, Tsujimoto M. Fire Sci. Technol. (Tokyo) 2011; 30(2): 55-68.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Tokyo University of Science, Center for Fire Science)

DOI

10.3210/fst.30.55

PMID

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Abstract

Tokyo University of Science, Global COE Program ("GCOE") has developed a mail delivery system "Net Fire News of East Asia by GCOE" ("the Net News") for the purpose of understanding the current situation of fires occurred in East Asia. The Net News delivery started on January 20, 2009. GCOE Net News coordinators collect all firerelated news from news websites in fifteen countries indicated in Table 1. Collected information is delivered to subscribers every week and also posted on the GCOE website http://gcoe.moritalab.com/?pagc_id=237.

Based on fire news collected so far, this article investigates the recent trend of fire occurred in Asia and presents the result of analysis.