Why more needed fire protection during Christmas and New Year Holidays
Release time: 2016-12-28 Browsing times: 3305
See the datas as below, you will find how important and necessary to protect fire especially on Christmas and New Year Holidays.
Christmas trees
Between 2010-2014, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 210 home fires that started with Christmas trees per year. These fires caused an average of 6 deaths, 16 injuries, and $16.2 million in direct property damage annually. On average, one of every 34 reported home fires that began with a Christmas tree resulted in a death, compared to an average of one death per 142 total reported home fires. Some type of electrical distribution or lighting equipment was involved in one-third (35%) of home Christmas tree fires. Twenty-three percent of Christmas tree fires were intentional. Two of every five (38%) home Christmas tree fires started in the living room, family room, or den.
A live Christmas tree burn conducted by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) shows just how quickly a dried out Christmas tree fire burns, with flashover occurring in less than one minute, as compared to a well-watered tree, which burns at a much slower rate.
Holiday decorations
U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 860 home structure fires per year that began with decorations, excluding Christmas trees, in 2009-2013. These fires caused an annual average of one civilian fire death, 41 civilian fire injuries and $13.4 million in direct property damage. Ten percent of decoration fires were intentional. The decoration was too close to a heat source such as a candle or equipment in nearly half (45%) of the fires. One-fifth (20%) of the decoration fires started in the kitchen. One out of six (17%) started in the living room, family room or den. One-fifth (20%) of the home decoration fires occurred in December. Source: NFPA´s "Home Structure Fires Involving Decorations" report, November 2015.
Candles
Candles started 38% of home decoration structure fires. Half (51%) of the December home decoration fires were started by candles, compared to one-third (35%) in January to November. The top three days for home candle fires were Christmas, New Year’s Day, and Christmas Eve. Source: NFPA´s "Home Structure Fires Involving Decorations" report, November 2015. Holiday cooking Thanksgiving is the peak day for home cooking fires, followed by Christmas Day and Christmas Eve.
Cooking equipment was involved in 18% of home decoration fires. This can happen when a decoration is left on or too close to a stove or other cooking equipment.
Again, fire alarm and smoke detectors are so very important for eveyone of us, it may save our lives when a fire gonna happen.
