Kiosk Fire


Kiosk fire time-line

This test was performed at the Western Fire Center in the summer of 1995 Times are in seconds from ignition. Select a picture to view a larger version.

0 min, 1 kW 5 min, 30 kW 10 min, 33 kW 15 min, 340 kW
20 min, 810 kW 25 min, 1 MW 30 min, 780 kW

The fire size in kilowatts versus time

Fire Data

The heat release data for this case is incorporated into the default one-room case for CFAST/FASTLite. If you are running FASTLite, we suggest that you copy this file into the default example directory, C:\FLITE . The data is also available in a spread sheet (comma delimited) format.

Animations

View a movie of this fire by downloading one of the following quicktime or mpeg files.

Frame RateAnimation Format
Quick TimeMPEG
10 frames per minute 1.5 MB 1.5 MB
60 frames per minute 8.6 MB 8.7 MB

Using a 14.4 kb modem, it takes about one minute to download each animation for every 60 kbytes in size. These animations were converted from video by the Scientific Applications Support Group at NIST.




Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899