Posted On: May 5, 2010
4,000 Die from Fire and Burns Each Year
Chicago – According to the law firm of Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, some 4,000 people die from fires and burns each year. This total includes an estimated 3,500 deaths from residential fires and 500 from motor vehicle and aircraft crashes, contact with electricity, chemicals or hot liquids and substances, and other sources of burn injury.
About 75% of these deaths occur at the scene of the incident or during initial transport. Fire and burn deaths are combined because deaths from burns in fires cannot always be distinguished from deaths which result from smoke poisoning.
