• Fire doubles in size every 30 seconds.
• Over 2 million fires are reported to fire departments each year in the United States.
• New York City, NY USA alone has more fires than the country of Japan.
• There are over 10 billion dollars in property damages in the USA each year.
• Despite the use of sprinklers and smoke alarms, the United States has the worst fire death rate in the industrialized world.
• Fires kill more Americans than all the following emergencies combined:  floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.
• In deadly home fires, 14% had working smoke detectors and alarms.
• Smoke detectors failed to operate in 44% of reported fires.
• You lose your sense of smell when you are sleeping.
  Almost 40% of fire victims die in their sleep.

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