Child, adolescent, and adult victims of residential fire. Psychosocial consequences.

Mueser et al. (1991) talked to kids, teens, and adults who had lived through house fires.

They wrote down each person’s PTSD signs—nightmares, jumpy sounds, flashbacks—like a doctor’s note.

No treatment was given; the paper is just a list of what fire survivors felt after the blaze.

Every person told a different story, but all showed clear PTSD.

The authors grouped the signs by age so clinicians could spot the pattern fast.

Kaur et al. (2025) later counted 76 case-series papers and included this 1991 study, proving the design is still useful today.

Buskist et al. (1988) saw the same PTSD signs in Vietnam vets; the symptoms look alike even though the trauma differs.

Weber et al. (2024) used the same retrospective case-series method for functional analyses, showing the style works across topics.

If a client enters your clinic after a house fire, pull this paper. It tells you the PTSD red flags to watch for—no guesswork. You can screen quickly and move straight to evidence-based trauma care instead of fishing for what might be wrong.