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Modern Materials Make Houses Burn More Quickly

Today’s house fires burn eight items faster and produce 200 times the amount of smoke that a fire would have 50 years ago… An average-sized room furnished with modern products is fully engulfed in flames in three minutes. The same room, furnished with items 50 years of age took 30 minutes to do the same.

The more aggressive modern fires mean that where before you had time to get organized and get out the door, now, you have mere minutes from the time the smoke alarm goes to escape your burning home.

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 Modern Materials Make Houses Burn More Quickly

What used to take half an hour now lasts mere minutes. Today’s house fires burn eight items faster and produce 200 times the amount of smoke that a fire would have 50 years ago… n average-sized room furnished with modern products is fully engulfed in flames in three minutes.

10 fire safety tips to help keep you and your kids alive and safe

Although the number of people killed in fires in the United States has been going down since the 1980s, the number is still high. In the year 2020, for example, 3,500 people were killed in fires in the U.S. The vast majority of those deaths – 2,580, to be exact, or about three out of every four – took place at home. Another 11,500 people suffered fire-related injuries at home.

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