USFA initiates public safety campaign

摘要

The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) initiated, in January, a Smoking & Home Fires Campaign to help reduce the number of home fire deaths attributed to smoking materials. The campaign urges smokers to "Put It Out. All the Way. Every Time." Smoking materials is the number one cause of preventable home fire deaths, according to the USFA. About 1,000 people are killed in smoking-related home fires every year, and, according to the USFA, one in four people killed in home fires is not the smoker whose cigarettes caused the fire. Children of the smokers (34 percent) and the smoker's neighbors and friends (24 percent) are the most common victims, as is the firefighter trying to save them.