Analysis of the Development of the Fire Losses in the Northern after the Second World War

In several different countries there has lately been a very unfavorable development as far as fire losses are concerned. There have been many and very bad big fires which have especially affected industry and trade. The facts which can be considered to have caused this development are well-known. Bigger and bigger and more concentrated units of production, business enterprises, and storing form an accumulation of values which in itself implies increasing risks. On account of production-technical and business- economical conditions it has not always been possible to divide the buildings into sections desirable from a fire service point of view. The new production methods have sometimes caused new fire risks.