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Graphic from the Government Accountability Office showing defensible space surrounding a home. A defensible space, in the context of fire control, is a natural and/or landscaped area around a structure that has been maintained and designed to reduce fire danger. The practice is sometimes called firescaping. [1] "Defensible space" is also used ...
Defensible space may refer to: Defensible space theory , a concept of influencing negative social behavior through architectural and urban design Defensible space (fire control) , referring to planning methods for prevention and control of fires
Fire control is the practice of reducing the heat output of a fire, reducing the area over which the fire exists, or suppressing or extinguishing the fire by depriving it of fuel, oxygen, or heat (see fire triangle). Fire prevention and control is the prevention, detection, and extinguishment of fires, including such secondary activities as ...
An area of refuge or safe room [1] is a place in a building designed to hold occupants during a fire or other emergency when evacuation may not be safe or possible. Occupants can wait there until rescued or relieved by firefighters.
An Indian Wehrmacht volunteer in a Tobruk DFP along the Atlantic Wall, 1944. During the fighting in North Africa (1942–43), U.S. forces employed the shell scrape.This was a very shallow excavation allowing one soldier to lie horizontally while shielding his body from nearby shell bursts and small arms fire.
Sprinkler branch pipe through-penetration with plastic sleeve - missing firestop in concrete fire separation. The space between the sleeve and the pipe is the annulus or annular space The annulus , or annular space , is the space between a penetrant and anything that surrounds it, such as the sides of an opening or a sleeve , as the case may be ...
Firewall residential construction, separating the building into two separate residential units, and fire areas Example of a firewall used to inhibit the spread of a fire at an electrical substation. A firewall is a fire-resistant barrier used to prevent the spread of fire. Firewalls are built between or through buildings, structures, or ...
Defensible space design tools were observed to be marginally effective in institutional and commercial settings. As a result, Newman and others moved to improve defensible space, adding CPTED-based features. They also deemphasized less effective aspects of defensible space. Contributions to the advance of CPTED in the 1980s included: