Causes and effects of Accidental fired in the U S
Residential fires are the leading cause of accidental deaths in the U.S. A person in the United States dies every three minutes due to an accidental house fire. ... Accidental house fires are mostly caused by: cooking accidents, faulty heating equipment, smoking, unattended candles and children playing with fire. It is also known that a working smoke detector decreases the chances of an accidental fire occurring indoors. ... Unattended candles can lead to a number of homes burning down across the U.S. On Christmas Day in 1999, there were an estimated 200 home candle fires reported to fire departments in the U.S. ... So that same night, the man who intended to burn the other man’s house down started a fire in a forest near by.