Between 2011 and 2013, more than 2500 people died in residential fires, according to a just released report. During that time period, 83 percent of civilian fire fatalities occurred as a result of house fires. The U.S. Fire Administration’s latest …
Fire deaths are up slightly this year in Alabama over 2013. The state fire marshal’s office says 86 people have died in fires so far this year in the state. That’s four more fatalities than during the same period last …
Fire officials in eastern Tennessee are seeing an increase in the number of fires and an uptick in the number of fatalities stemming from those blazes. Knoxville Fire Capt. D.J. Corcoran told WBIR-TV there was a single fatality in 2013, …
Alabama’s state fire marshal says 69 people have died in fires in Alabama so far this year. Fire Marshal Ed Paulk says 28 of those deaths occurred in January. Gov. Robert Bentley has declared October as “Fire Prevention Month.” The …
Alabama fire officials say the state has seen an alarming increase in fire deaths. Al.com reports that 19 people have died in fires across the state so far this year. In 2012, 71 people died in Alabama fires. Only six …
New Hampshire’s state fire marshal says four people died in fires in 2013, a record low for the state. Bill Degnan says more people are maintaining their smoke alarms. He tells The Telegraph of Nashua that a 2007 law that …
Indiana’s fire deaths have surged to 54 so far this year, giving the state more fire fatalities in just over five months than all of last year – a troubling increase the state’s top fire official said Friday he’s at …
According to the U.S. Fire Administration, an estimated 2,495 civilian fire fatalities resulted from 360,900 residential building fires annually from 2009 to 2011. Of the total residential building fires, 1,600 of them resulted in fatalities. The overall fatality rate was …
Records show that a San Antonio, Texas, group home where four men died in a fire in August had chronic violations of safety requirements, including fire standards. The San Antonio Express-News reported Thursday that Amistad Residential Facility owner Nancy Murrah …
No one died in a fire in Madison, Wis., in 2011. In fact, it’s the third time in four years that the city hasn’t had any fire fatalities. The last time a fire claimed a life in Madison was August …