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Most fire safety and fire prevention is a matter of common sense and following regulations. In 2006, fire departments responded to 412,500 home fires in the United States, which claimed the lives of 2,620 people and injured another 12,925, (not including firefighters). Children under five and adults over 65 are more than twice as likely to die in a home fire than the rest of the

population. Residential fires destroy about $6 billion in property each year, or about $2.3 million for each life lost. House fires are a greater threat to property than to lives because we are better at getting people out of houses than we are at preventing fires or putting fires out quickly. Total cost of fires has been estimated at $362 billion.[i]

HAZARDS

Smoking is the leading cause of home fire deaths.

Cooking fires are the leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries.

Heating fires are the second leading cause of home fires.

Alcohol use contributes to an estimated 40% of residential fire deaths.

If you burn wood in a fireplace, you should have your chimney swept regularly.

[i] The total cost of fire in the

United States

, as it is defined, is a combination of the losses caused by fire and the money spent on fire prevention, protection and mitigation to prevent worse losses, by preventing them, containing them, detecting them quickly, and suppressing them effectively. For 2008, that total cost is estimated at $362 billion, or roughly 2.5% of

U.S.

gross domestic product. Economic loss (property damage) – reported or unreported, direct or indirect – represents only $20.1 billion of this total. The net costs of insurance coverage ($15.2 billion), the cost of career fire departments ($39.7 billion), new building costs for fire protection ($62.7 billion), other economic costs ($44.0 billion), the monetary value of donated time from volunteer firefighters ($138 billion), and the estimated monetary equivalent for the civilian and firefighter deaths and injuries due to fire ($42.4 billion), all are larger components than property loss. http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/PDF/totalcostsum.pdf

KEY WIKIPEDIA PAGES

Active - passive fire protection

Active fire protection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Automatic fire suppression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Building code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

categoryFire detection and alarm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

categoryFire prevention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

categoryFire protection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

categoryFire protection organizations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

categoryWildfire prevention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fire alarm system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fire door - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fire Equipment Manufacturers' Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia