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You have had a fire/smoke event at your home or business. The fire department has left, and it is time for you to go back in and assess the damage. When you go back inside you may see black, heavy soot covering everything, with part of your home destroyed by fire; or you may be pleasantly surprised to see very little soot and just have a very strong smell throughout your building. In either scenario, it is what you cannot see that is most dangerous.

In addition to being very dangerous, fires in the workplace can be very costly due to damages as well as down time and loss of production for the business. There are 115,000 structure fires in non-residential properties annually, resulting in $3.1 billion in direct property damage each year according to research done by the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA).

The month of October is Fire Prevention month, and the week of October 7-13 is Fire Prevention Week. Although we have come a very long way in fire prevention and safety awareness, and you are less likely to have a house fire than you were decades ago; if you are in a fire, you are more likely to die from it now than you were decades ago. For these reasons, we are going to share with you the leading causes of fire in the home and the best ways to prevent them.