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Emergency Preparedness: Fires and Wildfires
A Practical Survival Guide
Author: Edward WillettIllustrator:
| Retail Price: | $35.95 |
| Betabooks Price | $21.57 |
ISBN: 9781404205321
Format: Hardback
Published: May 2006
Published By: Rosen Publishing Group
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Published: May 2006
Published By: Rosen Publishing Group
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Titles that are READY TO SHIP will be sent from our warehouse within 2 business days while stocks last. Click here for more details.
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According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and international nonprofit fire prevention organization, there were 402,000 home fires in the United States in 2003. Those fires caused 3,165 deaths. Another 14,075 people were injured.In 2000, one of the worst years for fires on record, wildfires across the western United States burned more than 5 million acres (2.02 million ha), destroyed 577 structures, and killed 8 people. Sadly, many of these fires were preventable - and some of the deaths and injuries that accompanied them could have been prevented if the victims had been better prepared.