1. If there was a fire in your home would you be prepared?
A collaboration with the UFD of South Kingstown

2. Essential Question:
What can you do to prevent yourself and your family from being the victims of a fire?

3. FACT
“In the U.S. , someone dies from a house fire roughly every three hours.” (“Fast Facts.”)

4. Compare the Evidence Leading causes of house fires
Cooking equipment
Heating equipment
Intentional fires
Electrical distribution equipment
Open flame (candles)
Appliance, tool, or air conditioning equipment (Dryers are the most common)
Smoking materials
Leading causes of fire deaths
Smoking materials fires
Intentional fires
Heating equipment fires
Cooking fires
Electrical distribution equipment fires
Open flame fires (candles)
Child play fires

5. Statistics
In many cooking fires, human error is a factor. “Unattended cooking is the leading cause of home cooking fires.”
“Over the last decade, candle fires have tripled.”
Home candle fires in the bedroom account for 41% of all U.S. home candle fires. 24% of these fires result in death.
“Roughly 70% of home fire deaths result from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.”
“Roughly one of every four fire U.S. deaths in 2001 was attributed to smoking materials.” (Ahrens)
Between there were 220 deaths associated with electrical equipment.

6. A fire doubles in size every minute!

7. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
According to the National Safety Council, deaths a year are due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
A person can be poisoned by a small amount of CO over a long period or a large amount of CO over a short period of time.

8. Preventative Actions Evaluate the safety of home
Develop an action plan to bring your home up to proper safety standards.
Develop an emergency evacuation plan for each room of the house and each level of the house.
Practice your emergency evacuation plan with your family.
Know what information is helpful to give to a operator.

9. Plan so you don’t get burned

10. Evaluating the Safety of Your Home
What items should we all have in our home to protect us from a fire?
How many exits should each room of your home have?
What would make your home unsafe?

11. What items should we all have in our home to protect us from a fire?
Smoke Detectors (Min. one on each floor) One in each bedroom is now required in new homes
Carbon monoxide detector on each floor
Fire extinguisher
Evacuation plan with a defined meeting place

12. How many exits should each room of your home have?2

13. What would make your home unsafe?
Unattended food cooking in the kitchen
Unattended candles
Overloaded plugs
Blocked exits
Missing batteries or broken smoke detectors
No working CO detectors
No evacuation plan

14. Works Cited
Ahrens, Marty. “The U.S. Fire Problem Overview Report; Leading Causes and
other Patterns and Trends.” /25/06
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“Fast Facts.” 3/25/06 <