2005 Us Fire Loss

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Go here for the September 2006 Full Report:

http://www.nfpa.org/itemDetail.asp?... Reports/Fire reports/Overall fire statistics

U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 1,602,000 fires. These fires resulted in 3,675 civilian fire fatalities, 17,925 civilian fire injuries and an estimated $10,672,000,000 in direct property loss. There was a civilian fire death every 143 minutes and a civilian fire injury every 29 minutes in 2005. Home fires caused 3,030, or 82%, of the civilian fire deaths.Fires accounted for seven percent of the 23,251,500 total calls. Nine percent of the calls were false alarms; sixty-two percent of the calls were for aid such as EMS.