In the combustion smoke of various combustibles,there are highly reactive and apparently long-lived gas phase radicals、In order to obtaill some information on the possibility for the production of such radicals in the actual fires, we attempted to detect gas-phase radicals in the combustion smoke from full- scale fire experiments.In consequence,we observed oxygen-centered gas phase radicals.This fact shows a possibility for the production of highly reactive and apparently long lived gas-phase radicals in the actuaI fires. In addition,we examined the production of gas-phase radicals from the combustion smoke of some typical polymers to clarify the infruence of combustion conditions on the production of the gas-phase radicals,As a result,as temperature and atmospheric oxygen concentration increased,amounts of produced gas phase radicals increased at first and then decreased.And the atmospheric oxygen concentration remarkably infiuenced the production of the gas -phase radicals in the case of the combustion of compounds not containing illtramolecular oxygen,It suggests that the oxygen colltained in the gas-phase radicals should be derived from both of the atmospheric and intramolecular oxygen.