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This anthology aims to give a comprehensive overview of deaths and injuries from residential fires and evidence-based approaches to reducing this problem. We believe that the residential area – where most fire-related fatalities and injuries occur – has not received the attention it merits compared to larger-scale fire events. Even if there are many specific papers and reports available on the topic, a compre­hensive textbook in the area was still lacking.

Between 2013 and 2018, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB, funded a substantial research effort on residential fires that resulted in new knowledge, not least on deaths and injuries from these fires. The Swedish Fire Research Foundation, Brandforsk, coordinated this work. When looking at the many new research find­ings, it was natural to come to the conclusion that these, together with results from published international research, deserved to be made more widely available.

Although many of the authors are Swedish, we believe that most of the findings are generically valid and applicable to other Western countries and regions. The connection to previously published scientific papers in the chapters, together with the peer-review process that all chapters have undergone, should guarantee this.

We hope this book will serve as a textbook for education at both universities and fire service schools. It also aims to be an accessible guideline for practitioners from different disciplines – fire, health, social, and policy sciences – as well as for differ­ent professional actors affecting the residential fire safety, such as authorities, stan­dardization organizations, and insurance companies.

The interdisciplinary approach, where the authors represent broad expertise from different disciplines such as fire protection engineering, public health science, med­icine, psychology, and policy sciences, is believed to be unique. Based on research and practice on the different aspects, the book summarizes the current level of knowledge, and some practical examples, giving guidance concerning preventive efforts and future research. Traditional textbooks on fire protection tend to describe the problem as mainly technical, whereas it rather should be seen as a problem of human vulnerability.