Fire Prevention Program Planning in a Social Action Perspective: An Exploratory Study of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Leaders in a High Fire Risk Area of New Orleans, Louisiana

摘要

The authors of recent studies on urban fire problems stress the human factor in residential fires. They note that in high fire risk areas certain attitudes, values, aspirations, beliefs, and social interaction patterns must be considered in planning fire education programs. This theme in keeping with the National-Fire Prevention and Control Act which was designed to implement programs aimed at overcoming the apathy, indifference, and ignorance which accounts for many of the fires occuring in the nation. The importance of implementing such programs was stressed at the Second National Fire Prevention and Control Conference held in October 1976.