Clifford Jones
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Clifford Jones FIFireE is a graduate of the University of Leeds (BSc 1974, PhD 1977, DSc 2005). His research activity in fuels and combustion has led to a large number of publications from the early 1980s to the present time. He has written 34 books, topics of which include coal science, hydrocarbon process safety, temperature measurement, fire protection engineering and offshore oil and gas decommissioning. He was recently a visiting lecturer in fire safety at Birmingham City University.

Image 1: Fire in the Lacrosse apartment block in Melbourne showing the rapid flame movement along the vertical cladding. Image courtesy of Fire Rescue Victoria, Australia Images supplied by Author / Contributor
Issue 91 - September 2022
The Lacrosse apartment building fire in Melbourne, Australia

In the small hours of 25 November 2014 there was a fire at the Lacrosse apartment building in the Melbourne suburb of Docklands. An Occupancy Permit for the building had been granted in June 2012. The population of the building…