Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci...
by jaclaz on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:30AM
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I doubt that US has that much good fire safety standards when compared to - say - Europe.
There is generically a far wider use in the US of combustible materials in buildings (compared to Europe) and this is probably only mildly balanced by the low density of housing (with the obvius exception of the relatively few big cities).
There is generically a far wider use in the US of combustible materials in buildings (compared to Europe) and this is probably only mildly balanced by the low density of housing (with the obvius exception of the relatively few big cities).
If we use these data:
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/fire_death_rates.h...
They are better than before: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v12i8.pdf but not enough.
Between 3000 and 4000 deaths per year (out of a population of around 330 millons) is 0,001 % or 1 every 100,000,which is still very, very high.