The 1965 Montreal, Canada apartment house explosion: some notes and comparisons with the Indianapolis, Indiana Coliseum Explosion.

By:

Adams, David

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University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 10 JAN 1967Description: 24p., 9 refsReport number: OCD-PS-64-46; DRC-RR-14; Institutional/Corporate BodySubject: A team from the Disaster Research Center at Ohio State University studied the organizational response to an explosion in an apartment house complex in Montreal. A major purpose of the study was to examine how the emergency responses in this disaster were similar and/or different from those observed in the 1963 Coliseum explosion in Indianapolis, Indiana. In general, organizations in both disasters had somewhat the same kinds of difficulties in coordinating with other organizations and had similar convergence and communication problems

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A team from the Disaster Research Center at Ohio State University studied the organizational response to an explosion in an apartment house complex in Montreal. A major purpose of the study was to examine how the emergency responses in this disaster were similar and/or different from those observed in the 1963 Coliseum explosion in Indianapolis, Indiana. In general, organizations in both disasters had somewhat the same kinds of difficulties in coordinating with other organizations and had similar convergence and communication problems

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