Cook County Administration Building Fire, 69 West Washington, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 2003 Heat Release Rate Experiments And Fds Simulations

On Oct. 17. 2003, in the Cook Cnty. Admin. Bldg., 69 W. Wash., Chicago, IL, a fire resulted in 6 fatalities & several injuries. NIST provided technical assistance to the Illinois Governors' review team. NIST's focus was the simulation of the fire using the Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS) & visualizations using Smokeview to provide insight into the fire growth & smoke movement. This report documents the furnishings, the experiments conducted, & the results of those experiments. The report also explain the development of a computational simulation & the result of those simulations. The simulation started with a small, flaming fire in the storage room & ended with the start of fire suppression activities by the fire department 16 min 30 s later. Illustrations.Madrzykowski, D. is the author of 'Cook County Administration Building Fire, 69 West Washington, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 2003 Heat Release Rate Experiments And Fds Simulations', published 2004 under ISBN 9780756745929 and ISBN 0756745926.