THE 1965 MONTREAL, CANADA, APARTMENT HOUSE EXPLOSION: SOME NOTES AND COMPARISONS WITH THE INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, COLISEUM EXPLOSION

Abstract

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, Canada on March 1, 1965. 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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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 10, 1967
Accession Number
AD0653889

Entities

People

  • David Adams

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Boundaries
  • Civil Defense
  • Classification
  • Convergence
  • Disasters
  • Emergencies
  • Emergency Response
  • Explosions
  • First Aid
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Radio Communications
  • Security
  • Social Sciences
  • Sociology
  • Therapy

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.