TORONTO - Ontario is currently on track to surpass the number of fire deaths recorded last year, the province’s fire marshal said Tuesday as he urged ...
TORONTO - Ontario is currently on track to surpass the number of fire deaths recorded last year, the province’s fire marshal said Tuesday as he urged residents to ensure they have fire escape plans and working smoke alarms in their homes.
“We’re heading into the winter months. We usually have higher number of house fires due to heating and trying to keep the house warm,” Pegg said in an interview. The province saw 115 fire deaths in 2020 and 72 deaths in 2019, the fire marshal’s office said. The number of fire fatalities fluctuated between 72 and 104 deaths per year between 2010 and 2018.“If you’re cooking make sure you stay with the cooking, don’t leave it unattended,” he said. “We see a big spike in fatalities and number of fires when somebody is drinking or using drugs and cooking.”“Fire burns so fast nowadays,” he said. “The materials we have in our houses ...
“ see on TV but for whatever reason they don’t believe that’s a fear for their own family,” he said. “They don’t think it will happen and so therefore they don’t have a working smoke alarm. And and then obviously it’s too late when they do have a fire.”
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