@article{ref1,
title="Power-law distribution of city fires",
journal="Fire safety journal",
year="2003",
author="Song, W. G. and Zhang, HP and Chen, Teng and Fan, WC",
volume="38",
number="5",
pages="453-465",
abstract="This paper presents results of fire distributions in China and Switzerland. The frequency-size (loss) distribution and the rank-size distribution (or Zipf plot) of city fires are plotted to check their fit with a power-law relationship. The results indicate that fire data in both countries have good power-law distributions and the power-law relation is invariant with scale and time, i.e. fires in different places or in different periods will have the same distribution characteristics. Steady power-law distribution corresponds with self-organized criticality (SOC) and is expected to provide practical implications for fire protection.<p />",
language="",
issn="0379-7112",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}