Fire Safety
One of the best ways to keep fires from happening is for citizens to take simple precautions to prevent them in the first place. Not only fires can be prevented but injuries that they cause to families. We hope you look through the links on the left and learn a thing or two that may save your or someone in your families life.
Fire Facts
According to the National Fire Protection Association,
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~In 2003, 80% of fires in the United States occurred in the home, resulting in 3,925 fire deaths.
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~In the U.S., someone dies from a home fire roughly every 134 minutes.
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~In Canada, someone is fatally injured in a home fire roughly every 31 hours.
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~Roughly half of all home fire deaths in the U.S. resulted from fires that were reported between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. But only one-quarter of home fires occur between those hours.
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~Although children five and under make up about 9% of the country's population, they accounted for 17% of the home fire deaths.
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~Smoking was the leading cause of home fire deaths overall, but in the months of December, January and February, smoking and heating equipment caused similar shares of fire deaths.
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~Every 20 seconds, a fire department responds to a fire somewhere in the nation.
Hopefully with tips on this page, you won't become a statistic like those.
Quick Note
Yes a lot of this might not be exciting or you have heard it many times before, but in the same sense that we as firefighters train on the basics constantly to keep us honed on the skills that will come naturally in an emergency , you can do the same with this information so it will be automatic should the need arise.
