Abstract
The following three papers in this special issue constitute the latter half of the papers that were mentioned in the September Special Issue (Volume 44, Issue no. 3 of Fire Technology September 2008), which in turn covered the suppression portion of the SUPDET 2007 Working Conference. These three papers were invited for this special issue from among the 17 papers presented at the detector section of the Orlando, FL, conference on March 5–8, 2007, and have been revised through the regular peer review process of this journal. The first two papers, respectively, describe the contribution of early fire detection to life safety, and the perceptions regarding fire-related emergency evacuation among high-rise building occupancies. The last paper won the SUPDET 2007 William M Casey Award (detector section). It takes a fresh look at the long disputed issue regarding the performance of ionization versus the performance of photo-electric smoke detectors. Fourteen original papers submitted to the detector section of the SUPDET 2007 can be found at www.nfpa.org/foundation.
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