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Annually, from 2017 to 2019, an estimated 2,770 civilian fire fatalities resulted from 1,900 fatal fires in residential buildings. This report focuses on the characteristics of civilian fire fatalities in residential buildings as reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) from 2017 to 2019.
While the loss of our possessions in a fire can be upsetting, the physical injuries and psychological impacts that fires can inflict on our lives are often far more devastating. The great majority of civilian fire injuries that occur each year result from home fires. This report describes the characteristics of civilian fire injuries in residential buildings reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System for 2017-2019.
From 2017 to 2019, cooking was, by far, the leading cause of all residential building fires and accounted for 51% of all residential building fires responded to by fire departments across the nation. Additionally, cooking was the leading cause of residential building fire injuries. This report describes the characteristics of cooking fires in residential buildings reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System for 2017-2019.
This topical report addresses the characteristics of fatal fires in residential buildings as reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS). The focus of this report is on fires from 2018 to 2020.
This report examines the nature of the United States fire death problem and compares it to other industrialized nations.
This topical report profiles fire department emergency and non-emergency runs.
Fire departments provide invaluable services to communities nationwide. To understand the full role they play in a community, this topical report profiles fire department run activity as reflected in the 2020 National Fire Incident Reporting System data.
The risk of death or injury from fire is not the same for everyone. This topical fire report explores fire risk for people living in the United States and why for some groups of people, fire risk is more severe.
This updated report can help your fire department focus its firefighter injury prevention efforts. It looks at firefighter injuries sustained at, responding to, or returning from a fire incident.
Analyzes internal and external exposure fires and the source fires that cause them.
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