I just received a media release from the Washington State Fire Marshal's Office stating that fire deaths in the state for 2009 were up 31% over 2008. Now that's a total of 59 individuals (or as they used to say when talking about disaster fatalities "59 souls lost") for an average of 8.8 per million and up from 6.8 per million in 2008.Highest we've ever seen since we started keeping stats in 1999 was for 2006 at 10.5/million. Smoking is way out front as cause, followed by electrical issues (see, we should ban electricity from houses rather than sprinklers--anyone from NAHB listening?). Washington ranks 20th lowest in fire deaths per capita. Data you can use rather than "does it feel...."
-- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Bates Technical College Tacoma, WA Member: SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
