- Author
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Hall, J. R., Jr.
- Title
- Home Fires Involving Portable Appliances Designed to Produce Controlled Heat Including Personal Care Devices.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Report
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NFPA No. USS69,
May 2008,
31 p.
- Keywords
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home fires
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fire statistics
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fire data
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appliances
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heating equipment
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injuries
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death
- Identifiers
- clothes iron; lectric blanket; heating pad; curling iron; hair dryer
- Abstract
- This report provides statistics on home fires involving portable appliances designed to produce controlled heat including personal care devices and includes information on fires by year, type of equipment, factor contributing to ignition, item first ignited and area of origin. This report provides statistics on home fires involving portable appliances designed to produce controlled heat, including personal care devices. In 2002-2005, there were an estimated 510 reported non-confined home structure fires involving clothes irons per year, 480 per year involving electric blankets, 340 per year involving curling irons, 330 per year involving hair dryers, and 280 per year involving heating pads, as well as 640 per year involving unclassified or unknown-type portable appliance designed to produce controlled heat. These estimates are based on data from the U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA's) National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA's) annual fire department experience survey.