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Every day, at least one child dies from a home fire and another 293 children are
ires or burns. Ninety percent of all fire-related deaths are due to
injured from f
home fires. Home fires can spread rapidly and leave families as little as
two minutes to escape after an alarm sounds.
1

Children under 5 years of age are at the greatest risk from home fire death
and injury; their death rate is nearly twice the national average. Each year,

nearly 488 children ages 14 and under die in home fires, and
incident. 2
another 116,600 children are injured from a fire/burn related

1 Safe Kids, 2013
2 Karter, 2010

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