Fire Prevention
2/17/2016 (Permalink)
-U.S. Fire Departments responded to an estimated annual average of 156,600 cooking-related fires between 2007-2011, resulting in 400 civilian deaths, 5,080 civilian injuries and $853 million in direct damage
-Two of every five home fires started in the kitchen
-Unattended cooking was a factor in one-third of reported home cooking fires
-Two-thirds of home cooking fires started with ignition of food or other cooking materials