- Author
- Chubb, M.
- Title
- Children Left Home Alone: Eleven Die in Two Fires, Detroit, Michigan (January 14 and February 17, 1993). USFA Fire Investigation Technical Report Series.
- Coporate
- TriData Corp., Arlington, VA
- Sponsor
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Report
- Report 070, 1993, 32 p.
- Contract
- EMW-90-C-3338
- Keywords
- fire investigations | residential buildings | children | fire fatalities | fire safety | education
- Identifiers
- unsupervised children; security; criminal prosecuration; product design
- Abstract
- Two Detroit, Michigan, fires are among a group of incidents in the early months of 1993 which raised the nation's awareness of the problem of unsupervised children. These incidents, which occurred less than a month apart, resulted in the deaths of 11 children under the age of 10. The causes of these fires and the factors which led to the tragic loss of these young lives provide vivid lessons about the dangers of leaving children home alone.