Fire Prevention
Objectives
We've done our job when:
• You can identify the most common causes of house fires and have a strategy to minimize the likelihood of each of these;
• You and your family are twice as likely to survive a house fire than the general population;
• You have the knowledge to select the fire prevention and detection tools most suitable to you;
• Minimize the property damage and maximize the survivability of a house fire.
Fast facts
• Home fires are the single most common disaster in the United States!
• More than 4,000 American die in house fires each year!
• Another 20,000 people are injured.
• $8,600,000,000 of property damage per year in the United States due to fires.
• Incidences of house fires in the United States are growing
• Children under 5 and seniors over 65 are more than twice as likely to die in a house fire
• Carbon monoxide is a deadly invisible, colorless, odorless gas that is a byproduct of burning carbon based fuels. Almost all homes in the United States use some carbon based fuels such as coal, natural gas, wood, oil, and propane.
• Carbon monoxide poisoning claims 480 lives and sends over 15,000 Americans to the hospital every year.
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