• In less than 30 seconds a small flame can burn out of control and turn into a major fire
• The heat is hot enough to kill. Room temperatures can be 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) at floor level and rise to 316 degrees Celsius (600 degrees Fahrenheit) at eye level
• Smoke & toxic gases kill more people than flames do

http://www.allaroundthehouse.com/lib.def.f3.htm

• fires can double in size approximately every 30-60 seconds
• in 8 minutes a fire can grow by 64 times of its initial sizes

http://www.milton.ca/fire/prevention

• over 90% of residential fires are preventable
• there is one injury out of every 17 preventable home fires
• 7 out of every 100 preventable residential fires is a fatal fire

Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

• adults in age groups between 65 and 75 have a fire death rate twice that of the national average
• average 2.1 million fires/year

http://www.kitchener.ca/city_hall/departments/devtech_services/fire/direct_detect/firefacts.html

• North America has one of the worst per capita fire death rates in the industrialized world

http://stopthefire.org/firefacts

• Smoke & toxic gases kills more people than flames do
• The most common cause of fires in the home are smoking, cooking, heating equipment and candles
• Most residential fires commence in the kitchen of a home
• In Canada and the US, fire kills almost 5000 people each year
• Residential fire account for 73 % of all fatalities

http://canadianresponse.ca/a825325-quick-canadian-fire-facts.cfm

For more information and statistics on Ontario fire issues please visit the Fire Marshal of Ontario website at http://www.ofm.gov.on.ca/english/default.asp