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Home fires are not things that happen to other people. Protect yourself and your family by installing smoke alarms (on every level, near and inside sleeping areas) in your home, regularly checking existing smoke alarms for working batteries, making portable fire extinguishers available and family members know how to use them properly, and having and practicing a pre-planned family escape plan in the event of a fire.

Here Are Some Fire Facts:

* Approximately every three hours a home fire death occurs somewhere in the nation
* Two-thirds of home fire deaths result from fires in homes without working smoke alarms
* Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in a home fire by providing an early warning and critical seconds to escape
* 96% of American homes have at least one smoke alarm
*19% do not have at least one smoke alarm that works (due to missing or dead batteries)
* Roughly 25 million homes are therefore at risk because of non working smoke alarms
* 4.5 million homes are at risk by not having smoke alarms
* Home fires, on average, kill 540 children ages 14 and under each year
* Children ages 5 and under are 1.5 times as likely as the population, as a whole, to die in home fires
* Seniors age 75 and older are three times more likely to die in a home fire
* 11 pm to 7 am are the peak alarm times for home fire deaths
* The National Safety Council reports that almost 700 people die each year as a result of unintentional poisoning by gases
or vapors in non-fire situations (carbon monoxide was involved in the majority of deaths.)
* Smoke alarms don't last forever. They should be replaced at least every 10 years.
* In less than 30 seconds, a small flame can get completely out of control and turn into a major fire
* It only takes m inutes for thick black smoke to fill a house, in minutes a house can be engulfed in flames
* If you wake during a fire, don't try to grab valuables, fire spreads quickly, smoke is thick, there is only time to escape
* Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do
* Breathing even small amounts of smoke and toxic gases can make you drowsy, disoriented and short of breath

Statistics Provided by the National Fire Protection Agency and the United States Fire Administration

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