- Author
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Dimensions (U. S. National Bureau of Standards)
- Title
- America's Not for Burning.
- Journal
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Dimensions (U. S. National Bureau of Standards),
Vol. 57,
No. 11,
264-267,
November 1973
- Keywords
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research facilities
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fire prevention
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fire statistics
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fire fighting training
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education
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fire protection
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smoke
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fire hazards
- Abstract
- A destructive fire breaks out somewhere in the United States every 12 seconds. In 1972, fire dilled over 12,000 Americans, giving us a deaths-per-million-population rate twice that of second-ranking Canada. Fires also maimed and disfigured about 50,000 persons. Another 250,000 suffered lesser injuries; all had terrifying experiences. Conservative estimates put the economic loss at over 11.4 billion dollars, which gives us the doubtful honor of outstripping the rest of the world on a per-capita basis.