Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Urban fire
occurs primarily in cities or towns with a high potential of destroying homes,
schools, commercial buildings, and vehicles. Cases of fire disasters in
Nigerian cities have been experienced in the last decade with increasing
frequency and severity with properties worth millions of naira destroyed in
fire accidents nationwide. This study attempts to integrate a global positioning
system (GPS) and geographical information system (GIS) to model areas
vulnerable to fire hazards within the study area. The procedural methodology
adopted consisted of spatial data acquisition, pre-processing (geo-reference),
post-processing, and analysis. Here High-Resolution Google Earth image was used
for dereferencing and digitization within the ArcGIS 10.3 version, Google Earth
Pro, and AutoCAD 2007 software. Three- features- analysis (Fire Incidences
Scenes, Fire Stations and Road Network) in terms of coverage and
service-area-delivery was performed.
Findings of the study revealed that the year 2016 had the highest
percentage (29%) of fire causes and occurrences; from 2016 to 2019, with Bush
fire consisting of 25 (19.5%) Gas
explosion 2 (1.56%), undergrowth wood-burn 13 (10.16%), Electric fault 21
(16.41%), Car burning 7 (5.47%) and unknown engulfed 60 (46.9%); while the year
2019 had the lowest, with 20.09%. The results reveal Monthly fire-occurrences
from January 2016 to September 2019 and fire-occurrence-response-rate from
Airport Fire station, Akure metropolitan fire station, and UBA-FUT-Akure fire
stations. Hence, this study presents a knowledge-based approach to modeling
urban fire- Susceptibility, with the view to managing such incidences by the
State, ensuring an increase in the ratio of fire professionals per population
of 1:1000 to march global tactics.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2022 pp. 102-109