- Author
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Title
- Halloween Fires.
- Coporate
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emmitsburg, MD
- Journal
- Topical Fire Research Series, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1-2, October 2000
- Distribution
- For more information about Topical Fire Research Series contact: Website: http://www.usfa.fema.gov/nfdc/tfrs.htm AVAILABLE FROM: U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 16825 South Seton Ave., Emmitsburg, MD 21727. Telephone: 301-447-1000. Website: http://www.usfa.fema.gov/
- Keywords
- arson | fire statistics | NFIRS
- Identifiers
- over a 3-day period around Halloween, a 3-year average of 15,500 fires caused $92 million in property loss, 45 deaths, and 175 injuries; many Halloween fires, especially those in vacant or abandoned buildings, are the result of arson. Alcohol or drugs were a factor in 20% of these fires; open flame fires increases by 50% over this period, largely due to the increased use of candles; some communities have adopted fire-related "watch" programs during the Halloween period, with some success; incendiary and suspicious fires (all reported fires, NFIRS analysis, 1998 data); loss measures for Halloween fires (1996-1998)