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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Miss Moxie" data-source="post: 125808" data-attributes="member: 27149">Where is your source for this information? Because I've found evidence to the contrary.Top causes of fireCooking equipment is the leading cause of home structure fires and home fire injuries. Smoking is the leading cause of civilian home fire deaths. Heating equipment is the second most common cause of home fire fatalities.via <a href="https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/By-topic/Top-causes-of-fire" target="_blank">https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/By-topic/Top-causes-of-fire</a>via <a href="http://arachnoboards.com/threads/avicularia-purpurea-purple-pink-toe-tarantula-advices.280597/page-3#post-2685259" target="_blank">http://arachnoboards.com/threads/avicularia-purpurea-purple-pink-toe-tarantula-advices.280597/page-3#post-2685259</a>At 51 percent, cooking was the leading cause of residential building fires. Heating caused another 11 percent. These percentages (and those that follow) are adjusted, which proportionally spreads the unknown causes over the other 15 cause categories. The leading causes of residential fatal fires were other unintentional or careless actions at 17 percent and smoking at 14 percent. The cause category “other unintentional or careless actions” includes the misuse of materials or products, abandoned or discarded materials or products, heat source too close to combustibles, and other unintentional actions. The cause was reported as under investigation in another 15 percent of the residential fatal fires.via <a href="https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/fius19th.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/fius19th.pdf</a>METHODS.We studied fatal and nonfatal residential fires in predominantly rural areas. Using a case–control design, we compared all 151 fatal fires (cases) in single-family dwellings in North Carolina during a 13-month period with a sample of nonfatal fires (controls). Case fires were identified through the medical-examiner system, and control fires that occurred within a few weeks of the case fires were chosen from the records of randomly selected fire departments statewide. For each fire, fire officials were interviewed about the dwelling, the fire, the people involved, and the fire-response system.RESULTS.Although heating incidents were the leading cause of fires, fatal fires were more likely to have been caused by smoking (31 percent of fatal fires vs. 6 percent of nonfatal fires).via <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199209173271207" target="_blank">http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199209173271207</a></blockquote>

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