what is most common cause of residence fire ?
Answers:
I've heard that it's cigarettes (ie falling asleep w/ one in hand and dropping it or other careless things like that). I've also heard that many house fires start in dirty dryer vents.
Other answers:
I think it must be grease fires in the kitchen.
I think it must be grease fires in the kitchen.
People being stupid and leaving their stoves on
heaters, the plug in kind
electricity
Excerpt from:
David E. Baker and Paul Adams
University of Missouri Extension
Residential fires have become a significant problem throughout the United States. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) estimates that residential fires in the United States kill 4,000 - 5,000 persons annually and resulted in injury to 20,000 more.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in its National Fire Incident Reporting System, the leading causes of residential fires in one- and two-family dwellings were heating (31 percent), cooking (15 percent) and incendiary or suspicious (10 percent).
In residential properties, cigarettes are still the leading cause of accidental multiple death fires (those fires that are fatal to three or more persons) by a factor of two to one. Fires resulting from fixed or portable heating equipment - wood stoves, kerosene heaters, gas or electric cooking stoves, etc. - are the second most common cause of accidental multiple death fires in residential properties.
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