- Author
- Dimensions (U. S. National Bureau of Standards)
- Title
- America's Not for Burning.
- Journal
- Dimensions (U. S. National Bureau of Standards), Vol. 57, No. 11, 264-267, November 1973
- Keywords
- research facilities | fire prevention | fire statistics | fire fighting training | education | fire protection | smoke | 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.