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About home structure fires

U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 362,500 home structure fires in 2009.  These fires caused:

  • 2,565 civilian deaths
  • 12,650 civilian fire injuries
  • $7.6 billion in direct damage

 

Roughly 85% of all civilian fire deaths in 2009 resulted from home structure fires.  Nationwide, once every three hours someone is fatally injured in a home fire.

 

Sources:

Fire Loss in the United States During 2009, Michael J. Karter, Jr., NFPA, Quincy MA. August 2010.

 

Home Structure Fires, Marty Ahrens, NFPA, Quincy, MA. March 2010.

 

Reprinted from the Fire Sprinkler Initiative website.

Resources Available to help you advocate for Fire Sprinklers in your community

  

Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors

The Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors will provide an 8 hour advocacy training:  Fire Sprinklers - An Advocacy Plan at World Burn Congress in 2011, featuring Brad Phillips from Phillips Media Relations. If you or any survivors from your community are interested in attending contact us for more information. All trained advocates will receive an advocacy book and be added to our advocacy database to be called upon if code issues are active in your state. /

 

Common Voices

Common Voices released a series of six new PSAs that tells their story and the need for residential fire sprinklers. Each PSA has a personal message from Common Voices advocates, but many with a twist.

 

The complete media kit is available by visiting www.fireadvocates.org and selecting the "order" button on the home page.  The kits are free thanks to the Department of Homeland Security Assistance to Firefighters Act fire prevention grant.

 

National fire protection association 

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) announced the Faces of Fire campaign, featuring personal stories of those who have been affected by fires in the home. Faces of Fire is a tool to promote the required installation of fire sprinklers in new one- and two-family homes and is part of NFPA's Fire Sprinkler Initiative. Faces of Fire was developed with funding from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

 

Through video interviews, photographs and written profiles available online, Faces of Fire is a resource for local advocates and fire personnel, putting personal stories front and center during consideration of fire sprinkler mandates.

 

To learn more about the Faces of Fire campaign and how you can use these resources to promote fire sprinklers go to www.firesprinklerinitiative.org.

 

Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition

Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition is a national non-profit focused on home fire sprinkler education. They have developed a library of information and resources you can use to educate consumers, elected officials, developers and builders about the benefits of fire sprinklers in homes, including our new Public Educator's Kit. The HFSC is the source for educational material when it comes to residential fire sprinklers. Visit them at www.homefiresprinkler.org