%0 Journal Article %T The risk of fire occurring in building compartment – what are the consequences if it is assumed to be time-independent %A Maślak, Mariusz %J Czasopismo Techniczne %V 2013 %R 10.4467/2353737XCT.14.063.3971 %N Budownictwo Zeszyt 3-B (9) 2013 %P 43-51 %K fire occurrence, probability, Poisson process, risk, hazard rate, process intensity %@ 0011-4561 %D 2014 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/czasopismo-techniczne/artykul/the-risk-of-fire-occurring-in-building-compartment-what-are-the-consequences-if-it-is-assumed-to-be-time-independent %X The acceptance in advanced fire safety analysis of the formal model according to which the probability of fire occurrence is assumed as time-independent leads to the conclusion that random fire episodes in considered building compartment can be described by the formalism of a Poisson process. In the presented paper some consequences of such adoption are presented and widely discussed as well as the foundations are determined of the equivalence between this probability and a conditional failure rate, which is interpreted as a process intensity parameter.