Fire deaths in the United States co...

Fire deaths in the United States continued a favorable stretch in 1999 as they decreased 11 percent from 1998 According to the Quincy, Mass.-based National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), no other than 3,570 people perished in fires last year, as compared with fire deaths in 1979 and 1989 when 7575 and 5410 population respectively, were killed in fires (see table).

uniform with the steady decrease in fire deaths, the association points disclosed a civilian fire fatality still occurr each 2.5 hours, 80 percent of which were in a dwelling. A fire injury to a civilian occurr each 24 ...