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Original publisher: [Emmitsburg, Md.] : Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Fire Administration, [1998?] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)71659971 Subject: Industrial buildings -- Fires and fire prevention. Excerpt: ... USFA-TR-086 / January 1995 5 into carpet squares and usually adding an adhesive and protective cover over it. The squares would be packaged into cardboard boxes, marked, stacked into a pallet load and moved to storage. Nearby Range 6 was a similar piece of equipment, identified as " Laminating Range Number 400. " This unit was also served by the main hot oil circulating loop and also attached backing material to rolls of carpeting. The third load loop on the hot oil system was the adhesive mixing vats located on the second floor of the adjoining building. The operating temperature and characteristics of this load were not available. The 500 gallon hot oil system expansion tank was located above the roof on this building. bUILDInG COnSTRUCTIOn The complex was generally a single story, noncombustible building with some sections having a mezzanine or two-story offices ( See appendix A ). The single story sections were almost 30-feet tall and the complex had approximate dimensions of 585 feet ( north-south direction ) by 885 feet ( east-west direction ). The total horizontally projected area inside building walls was approximately 536,000 square feet and the total floor area ( including mezzanine and 2nd floor ) was approximately 580,000 square feet. Except for some small offices, the laboratory and the truck staging / shipping area, the fire caused complete structural collapse of the Complex. In the Carpet Service Center ( original 1968 building and 1970 addition ), the roof construction was described as tectum board roof deck supported by unprotected steel bar joists. In the Live Oak / Milstar Complex ( 1972 addition ) the roof construction was metal deck supported by unprotected steel bar joists. Throughout all of the buildings, the roof's steel bar jo...