Residential fires kill nearly 2,500 people each year. In 2009, California home fires killed 44 people and injured 430 including 102 firefighters as reported to the California Office of the State Fire Marshal. According to information provided by Uponor, a leading supplier of plumbing, fire safety and radiant heating and cooling systems for the residential and commercial building markets in the United States, in response to growing concerns about home-fire fatalities and irrefutable fire-loss data, states such as California and Pennsylvania have adopted national building codes that require fire sprinklers -in all newly constructed homes.
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