Abstract
Americans are afraid of fires. And with good reason. If trends continue, some 7500 people will die in fires in the U.S. this year, and four times that number will be injured. That's a fire death rate per capita that is almost twice the international average, and one that is surpassed by only one other country—Canada. And as for fire incidence, the U.S. rate per capita is the highest in the world. The fires Americans seem most afraid of are those in public buildings like hotels, night clubs, and even jails, where a single incident can lead to scores of deaths. Although these public fires focus attention on fire hazards, by far the largest number of fire deaths in the U.S. occur in homes. On average, about 25 people per day in the U.S. die in fires. But when 119 people died between November 1980 and May 1981 in three highly publicized hotel fires in ...
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