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- 75 children killed in house fires in 2003
- Chip pans and other cooking facilities cause the most number of house fires; smoking leads to the highest number of fatalities.
- More fires start in the kitchen than any other room but the largest number of fatal fires start in the living room
- Fire is still the leading cause of death for one to nine year
olds in the home.
- The numbers of deaths and injuries due to fire have declined
over recent years.
- Having a smoke alarm can more than double your family's chance
of surviving a fire.
- The chances of a fire occurring in your home is minimal if
you take sensible precautions.
- Fires do happen however careful you are. The sooner you know
there is a fire the quicker you and everybody who lives with you
can escape and call the Fire Brigade.
- In the Lancashire area 16 deaths occurred last year as a result
of a house fire none of these households had a fire alarm.
- Half of deaths in homefires occur between 10pm and 8am
- A quarter of all people who die in homefires were asleep at
the times.
- Up to 270 people killed in fires each year didn't have a smoke
alarm.
- Over the last five years more than 70 people have been killed
every year because their smoke alarm didn't work, usually because
the battery was flat or missing.
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