Practices, rules, and equipment designed to prevent fires and protect people and property from fire dangers.
Compound of 'fire' and 'safety' (from Old French 'sauve'), becoming a formalized concept in the late 1800s as industrial accidents increased.
The word 'fire safety' became crucial after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911, where locked exit doors killed 146 workers—it fundamentally changed how we think about emergency egress!
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