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Zahedan School Fire: Endless Fire Incidents in Iranian Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2019

Mohammad Heidari Open the ORCID record for Mohammad Heidari [Opens in a new window] ,
Hamid Jafari  and
Samaneh Heidari
Mohammad Heidari
Affiliation:
Community-Oriented Nursing Midwifery Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran
Hamid Jafari
Affiliation:
Department of Health in Disasters and Emergencies, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Samaneh Heidari*
Affiliation:
Trauma and Injury Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Correspondence and reprint requests to Samaneh Heidari, Trauma and Injury Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Hemmat Expressway, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: samaheidari@gmail.com)
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Abstract

Emergencies frequently happen and sometimes their victims are school students. School age children and adolescents may be more vulnerable to life events and require more attention than adults, depending on the stage of their growth. The private elementary school of Osveh Hasaneh in Zahedan, Iran, caught fire on December 18, 2018, at 9:00 AM, where 4 students were killed. This school fire is the highest rate of mortality in Iran in terms of the number of student deaths. Considering the repeated nature of such incidents in Iranian schools, it is necessary to increase the awareness of risk of fire in schools to promote a culture of fire prevention in society.

Keywords

incidentsIranian schoolsschool firestudents
Type
Report from the Field
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , June 2020 , pp. 360 - 363
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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