Fast Facts • Cooking is the leading cause of home fires on Thanksgiving Day.*** • Cooking fires nearly double on Thanksgiving Day, occurring more than twice as often than on another day.*** • Cooking fires are the number one cause of home fires and home fire injuries.*** • Thanksgiving Day home fires cause more property damage and claim more lives than home fires on other days.** • Eighty percent of Americans don’t realize that home fires are the single most common disaster across the nation.* • The number of home fires the American Red Cross has responded to has risen 10% since 2000.* • Every two and a half hours someone is killed in a home fire. In a typical year, 20,000 people are injured in home fires.** • Having a working smoke alarm reduces one’s chances of dying in a fire by nearly half.** For more information, please visit: redcross.org/homefires for more information on how to be fire safe on Thanksgiving Day.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:36:19 +0000