An excellent posting, thank you.
I have been fortunate to be involved in the fire services in the United Kingdom and United States. Even though I have been domicilled in the US for 17 years I still regularly visit sites in the UK for reference purposes and would like to share some useful of that information with you. Some studies go back when I was a fire prevention office in London in the 1970's, not all myths, it is just that it is vital for our community to keep up with current technology!
The Building Research Institute has a large volume of test data:
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www.bre.co.uk]
Then Institution of Fire Engineers has also a lot of valuable information, incidentally there is a US Chapter available for membership within the US:
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www.ife.org.uk]
A previous post related to: "What should we keep in our library?"so I feel these are sites to add to your Favorites for constant reference.
Howard Myers
Retired - London Fire Brigade