Fire Prevention Month: Things You Didn't Know

As we've already told you, October is Fire Prevention month. So we'll be focusing on giving you lots of info on how to keep your home and family protected from fire in the coming posts. This week, we thought it would be best to fill you in on some fire facts you may not have known.

1. Did you know... one home fire was reported every 87 seconds in 2009?

2. Did you know... on average 7 people die in home fires every day, people over the age of 65 are at the highest risk?

3. Did you know... roughly two thirds of fire deaths occur in homes with no, or non-working smoke alarms?

4. Did you know... one in five smoke alarms failures was due to dead batteries?

5. Did you know... unattended cooking was by far the leading cause of fires?

6. Did you know...households using electric ranges have a higher risk of fires than those using gas ranges?

7. Did you know... heating equipment was the second leading cause of all reported home fires and fire related deaths?

8. Did you know... 53% of home electrical fires involved some type of equipment like washers/dryers, fans, and space heaters?

9. Did you know... half of all home heating fire deaths resulted from equipment being too close to items that can burn, such as furniture, mattresses, boxes etc?

10. Did you know... on average there are 35 home candle fires reported per day?

What other important info have you gained in fire prevention month? How are you going to work to protect your home and family this October?