Spring Forward and Move Your Clocks Ahead!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - gthompson
Spring Forward and Move Your Clocks Ahead!
Remember, taking time to move your clocks ahead next month is also an excellent time to check your smoke detectors and change the batteries.
Facts & Figures:
- Deaths from fires and burns are the fifth most common cause of unintentional injury deaths and the third leading cause of fatal home injury.
- 39% of home fire deaths occurred in homes without smoke alarms or homes with no working smoke alarms in 2008.
- An estimated 890 lives could be saved each year if all homes had working smoke alarms.
- The fire death rate in homes with working smoke alarms is 51% less than the rate for homes without this protection.
- In one out of every five homes equipped with at least one smoke alarm installed, not a single one was working.
- Why do smoke alarms fail? Most often because of missing, disconnected or dead batteries. Nuisance activations were the leading cause of disabled smoke alarms.
- There were 412,500 fires, 2,620 deaths, 12,925 injuries and $6.9 billion in property losses associated with residential fires in 2006.
- Native Americans are among the Top 6 groups at increased risk of fire-related injuries and deaths
- On average, in 2007, someone died in a fire about every 142 minutes, and someone was injured every 44 minutes.
Source:
NFPA's "U.S. Experience with Smoke Alarms and Other Fire Detection/Alarm Equipment" report by Marty Ahrens, April 2009; U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
Safety is No Accident!
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