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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:36:09 +0000, Trevor Barton
<[email protected]> wrote in message
<u8b5pc.luv.ln@ahahahooey>:
>Many house fires are started as a result
>of shoddy DIY electrical wiring.
- Fires started by cigarettes kill more people than any other kind of
fire - accounting for one third of all fatal fires in the home.
- On average, 140 deaths and over 1,800 injuries each year occur as a
result of fires caused by smoking.
- The number of deaths caused by cigarette fires increased by 11% in
the UK, or nearly 30% in England and Wales.
- You are almost 5 times more likely to die and twice as likely to be
injured in a fire caused by a cigarette than you are with other fires.
Top 4 sources of fire:
Cooking activities 55% of fires (15% deaths)
Smokers’ materials and matches 11% (34% of deaths)
Electric, gas and open fires 5% (10% of deaths)
Candles 3% (2.5% of deaths)
So, in response to special pleading from industry bodies "they" are
"doing something" about the "menace" of shoddy electrical work while
quietly ignoring the major causes.
It's déja-vu all over again...
Guy
--
"then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels
blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs
onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles
around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales
<[email protected]> wrote in message
<u8b5pc.luv.ln@ahahahooey>:
>Many house fires are started as a result
>of shoddy DIY electrical wiring.
- Fires started by cigarettes kill more people than any other kind of
fire - accounting for one third of all fatal fires in the home.
- On average, 140 deaths and over 1,800 injuries each year occur as a
result of fires caused by smoking.
- The number of deaths caused by cigarette fires increased by 11% in
the UK, or nearly 30% in England and Wales.
- You are almost 5 times more likely to die and twice as likely to be
injured in a fire caused by a cigarette than you are with other fires.
Top 4 sources of fire:
Cooking activities 55% of fires (15% deaths)
Smokers’ materials and matches 11% (34% of deaths)
Electric, gas and open fires 5% (10% of deaths)
Candles 3% (2.5% of deaths)
So, in response to special pleading from industry bodies "they" are
"doing something" about the "menace" of shoddy electrical work while
quietly ignoring the major causes.
It's déja-vu all over again...
Guy
--
"then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels
blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs
onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles
around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales