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house fires.” he noted. "Another 230,000 were injured and house fires destroyed S5 billion in property."
As an example of the life saving impact of smoke detectors. Huff reported that all Navy and Marine Corps’ family housing was fully protected with detectors in 1979. Prior to that date, lives lost to fires in family housing averaged 5.8 a year. Since the detector program was instituted, there have been no lives lost in house fires among the 120.000 occupants of the 30,000 housing units.
Most Vulnerable
Surveys indicate that most of the homes not protected are those most vulnerable to fire: homes of the poor, the elderly, the handicapped and minorities. "The sad truth is that the majority of fire victims come from these groups,” said Huff, pointing out that the reason most often cited for not installing smoke detectors is that the devices are thought to be unimportant. "It’s the firecan-never-happen-to-me
attitude,” he added. According to statistics, the segments of the U. S. population that still need detectors include: —67 percent of households that rent.
78.6%