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empower communities and organisations to assess fire risks and prioritise fire risk reduction efforts and investments. To find out more about the framework or to contribute to further research on fire safety in informal settlements, please get in touch. We look forward to continuing to work in this area to help make communities more resilient to fire
Danielle Antonellis is a fire safety engineer at Arup. For more information, view page 5
References 1.
‘Injuries and Violence: The Facts’, World Health Organisation, Geneva, 2014
2. ‘Fire in slum in Pakistan’s Karachi kills 39’, Reuters, I Shah, A Borka, A Anthony, R Birsel and A Richardson,
https://www.reuters. com/article/us-pakistan-fire/fire-in- slum- in-pakistans-karachi -ki lls-39- idUSTRE5080YG20090109, 2009
3. ‘After the fires: Out of the ashes comes a far better Imizamo Yethu’, City of Cape Town,
http://www.capetown.gov.za/Media- and-news/Out%20of%20the%20ashes%20 comes%20a%20far%20better%20 Imizamo%20Yethu, 2017
4. Slum Almanac 2015/2016, Tracking Improvement in the Lives of Slum Dwellers, Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme Team Nairobi, 2016
5. South Africa National Fire Statistics, 2003 to 2014, excluding 2008, 2011 and 2012, Fire Protection Association of Southern Africa,
http://www.fpasa.co.za/journals/sa- national-fire-statistics
6. ‘Fire Risk and Vulnerability in Urban Informal Settlements in Metro Manila: An integrated approach to sustainable urban fire risk management’, Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, D T Rini, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, 2018
7. Operational Portal: Refugee Situations, UNHCR,
https://data2.unhcr.org/en/ situations/myanmar_refugees, 2018
Further reading
◊ ‘What is Resilience? – Definitions’,
ResilienceTools.org, http://www.
resiliencetools.org/node/14, 2018
◊ ‘Improved Methods for Fire Risk Assessment’, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, J Twigg, N Christie, J Haworth, E Osuteye and A Skarlatidou, 2017
◊ ‘Our World in Data’, Our World in Data,
https://ourworldindata.org, 2018
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For more information, including a podcast with Danielle Antonellis and international development senior consultant, Darren Gill, visit
https://www.arup.com/perspectives/stopping- the-spread-a-new-framework-for-fire-safety
To download the report, ‘A Framework for Fire Safety in Informal Settlements’, visit https://
www.arup.com/perspectives/publications/ research/section/a-framework-for-fire-safety- in-informal-settlements
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◊ ‘Fire tears through Manila slum leaving 15,000 homeless’, New York Times, F Villamor and R Goldman, https://www.nytimes. com/2017/02/08/world/asia/fire-tears- through-manila-slum-leaving-15000-
homeless.html, 2017
◊ ‘Tent fire kills Rohingya woman, three children in Cox’s Bazar camp’, Dhaka Tribune, A Aziz,
https://www.dhakatribune.com/ bangladesh/2018/01/12/fire-rohingya- woman-children-coxs-bazar, 2018
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