Further Reading

The following are articles and resources related to fire risk shared by project members on the datasci-firerisk Slack channel:

San Francisco:

• Fire Safety Inspections in San Francisco: A Tale of Two Departments: Department of Building Inspection & San Francisco Fire Department June 2016
• KQED News: "S.F. Needs to Improve on Fire Inspections, Civil Grand Jury Says"
• Fire Safety Task Force Final Report 01-19-16
• KQED News: "Ghost Ship Fire Prompts SFFD to Consider Random Warehouse Inspections"
• KQED News: "2014 Mission Bay Fire: A Threat Remembered, and Lessons Learned"
• SFGate: "A new report suggests a fire risk inside San Francisco's leaning, sinking skyscraper"

Oakland:

• GT: "Oakland, Calif., Fire Department Blames Software for Inspection Lapses"
• SFGate: "Oakland fires put insurers on watch"
• East Bay Times: "‘Huge failure’: 80 percent of Oakland firefighter warnings of unsafe buildings go unchecked"
• SFGate: "4 fires, 4 arsons at half-done housing sites in Oakland"
• KQED News: "Oakland Firefighters Control Yet Another Huge Construction Blaze"
• ABC7News: "Fire destroys vacant home in Vallejo, safety investigation underway"

Other Bay Area:

• Mercury News: "10 years after San Jose’s worst fire"

New Orleans:

• Enigma Blog: "Smoke Signals: Open Data and Analytics for Preventing Fire Deaths"
• American Red Cross: "What is the Home Fire Campaign?"

New York:

• GT: "New York City Fights Fire with Data"