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Data from a number of large liquid pool fire experiments, recorded at the Fire Research Institute of Japan over more than a dozen years, were gathered and compiled. Burning rate and radiative outputs of gasoline, kerosene, and heptane were of primary interest. It is difficult to deduce the behavior of large fires from data on small fires because of the likelihood of decreasing combustion efficiency and heavy soot generation with resulting blockage of radiation. The data compiled here is possibly the largert body of data available for study on large pool fires.