As you can see from these statistics offered by the NFPA, residential fire deaths have been cut in half over the past 30 years, only because fires have been cut in half.
The increased popularity of the ionization detector wasn’t a valid factor.
Remember how these statistics get reported - after a fire department makes a run.
(c) Copyright July 09
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The U.S. Fire Problem
Residential structure fires
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*As number of fires decrease, so does the number of deaths, but not the death rate from fires.
Source: NFPA Survey
