A Retrospective Analysis of The Causes of Industrial Fires in Istanbul Occurring Between 2015 and 2020
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2024
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Ankara Üniversitesi
Abstract
This study was conducted to analyze the causes of industrial fires that occurred in Istanbul from 2015 to
the first half of 2020. An official application was made to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Fire Brigade
Department, which has archive data on this subject, to conduct the research and a sample set was created
by filtering industrial fires from the data pool obtained after the approval of the application. In the analysis
phase of the 4600 industrial fire data reached, the distributions of the fires according to years, the intended
use of the property where the fire took place, the cause of the fire and the district where the fire took place
were examined using the Chi-square analysis method. SPSS 22 software package was used in the analysis
and the level of significance was determined as 0.05. The examination of the results of the analysis indicated
that the leading cause of industrial fires in Istanbul between 2015 and 2020 was electrical equipment with
a rate of 44.8%. Electrical equipment was followed by hot work equipment, heating equipment, cigarettes,
flammable and explosive chemicals, cooking equipment and arson, respectively. In the study, the reasons of
the fires obtained as a result of the analysis of the data were examined, a comparison with the US industrial
fire statistics was made and recommendations for improving data and preventing the recurrence of
industrial fires were made. In addition, it was emphasized that robust statistics on the causes of fires played
an important role in the development of fire prevention strategies and legislation.
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Analysis, Causes of fire, Industrial fires, Istanbul