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University of Maryland, College Park

The Effect of Fires on People, Property and the Environment

Fires impact people, property and the environment in all countries around the world. In some cases, the resulting losses are extraordinary, causing hundreds of deaths, widespread damage to property and contents and significant impacts on the environment. More often, fires may cause a single casualty or affect a single home, though the effects are still highly significant to those affected and collectively are substantial. This course will provide an overview of the challenges posed by fire as well as the fire safety solutions that are available to meet those challenges.

Status: Environment
Status: Injury Prevention
Course14 hours

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Reviewed Mar 11, 2018

Great course highlighting the fundamentals involved in fire engineering. Rather high level overview but gets you wanting to know more.

Reviewed Aug 27, 2023

This course really enabled me to learn about the objectives of this course i.e., Fire Protection Engineering

Reviewed Jan 27, 2020

☼ A very comprehensive review, on a topic I did not know enough about! Great course. Especially for those who live in Australia or California and want to understand fires better.

Reviewed Apr 10, 2020

it is very good course design for the HSE proffessional, who can enhance their knowledge through online study material. thanks for the Team for your efforts.

Reviewed Oct 28, 2016

entry level, very basic concepts for professionals. It would be very good for anyone who wants to know about fire protection engineering. No background is needed, but engineering background

Reviewed Mar 29, 2018

it is a good informative course regarding the safety of people property and environment arranged in a systematic order. thank you

Reviewed Jul 7, 2017

excellent course too bad there arent many courses on safety in course era as my main subject is safety.:( :( :(

Reviewed Nov 21, 2020

I like this course because it gave me a comprehensive idea on the fire protection design and implementation.

Reviewed Jun 22, 2020

Very relevant course specially for professionals to grow. Knowledge are available but where it is that is important. Really liked the teaching approach of instructors.

Reviewed Jun 18, 2017

The course is helpful for all Safety professionals.. I am happy to take this course which had provided me the insight knowledge of effects of fire.

Reviewed Feb 20, 2021

Great content! It has provided me with a lot of information that will be beneficial to me in dealing with fire.

Reviewed Dec 26, 2016

Amazing course of fire science and learnt alot of new concepts and things. I am really excited to implement the newly learnt knowledge and skills. Thanks Coursera

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