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| | | Article Name : | | | Fire Disaster and Risk Reduction: Perspective of Private Universities in Dhaka City | | Author Name : | | | Dulali Rani Saha | | Publisher : | | | Bridge Center | | Article URL : |  | | | Abstract : | | | Background: Natural and manmade disasters in different scales are very common in Bangladesh. Fire disaster is causing huge loss of lives and properties. Human awareness and appropriate supportive facilities can play a vital role in fire disaster risk reduction. The university community like students, faculties, and employees can play an effective role in the fire disaster risk reduction process.
Objective: To prepare the university community for the reduction of fire disaster risk to save the lives and assets.
Methods: Students, faculties and employees of the private universities in Dhaka city were respondents. A semi structured questionnaire used to collect data. A total of 300 respondents were in the study. The study was conducted from July 2021 to October 2021. Data were analyzed by SPSS 16.0 version software.
Results: Most of the participants (98.5%) age was from 20 to 23 years and among them 69.6% male. Finding reveals that 20% of the subjects do not know their university is equipped with firefighting facilities or not. Only 45% participant is able to operate the firefighting tools. Among the participants only 12.7% faced the fire occurrence in their university. From the study assumed that electrical short circuit (70.1%) is the highest cause of fire occurring. Overloaded electrical circuit and faulty electrical wiring are responsible for fire accident 33.8% and 28.9% respectively. The results showed that the remarkable consequences of the fire incidents are people | | Keywords : | | | Fire Disaster, Risk Reduction, Private University, Fire Incident Command System (FICS), Incident Command System (ICS), University Resource Officer (URO). |
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