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Excerpt from Fire and Life Safety for the Handicapped: Reports of the Conference on Fire Safety for Th Handicapped, Held at the National Bureau of Standards, November 26-29, 1979; Workshops on Life Safety for the Handicapped, Held in Washington, D. C., August and September 1979 Many Americans are disabled to the point where their ability to cope with a fire can be considered impaired. These citizens are usually at a greater than average risk from fire except when they are segregated in institutions that provide custodial care and safety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.