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    1.    Some of Harris Interactive findings . . .

    2.      Virtually all Americans currently have a smoke alarm installed

    3.     in their homes.


    5.     Four out of ten have had their smoke alarms go off in the past

    6.     twelve months.


    8.    * Fewer than one in ten thought that their smoke alarm going
        off meant there was a fire or that they had to get out. Those
        with children are more likely than those without to think this.


    10.    *  The actual number is 8% that thought there was a fire or
         that they had to vacate.

The National Fire Protection Association
commissioned Harris Interactive

to conduct the Fire Prevention Week Survey

The most shocking piece of information is saved for last.

This is a by-product of not critically looking at the facts.

A couple of years ago the NFPA commissioned a survey by Harris Interactive.

Here is their disturbing findings,

When a smoke alarm goes off fewer than one in ten people

thought there was a fire and they had to get out of the house!