On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:50:35 -0500, Jim Michaels
wrote:



If you look at

http://www.firesafetytoolbox.org.uk/...dfirefacts.htm

you will see that only 2000 out of 28000 fires were due to fixed
wiring and that 5 lives were lost. Five too many of course, but
adjusting for population (say 60m vs. 250m), the U.S. rate of 350
would equate to 84, some 17 times worse for the U.S.

An improbable ratio.

The US number certainly includes more causes than "Fixed Wiring".

Really?


If you include heating and air conditioning systems in the U.S. it
adds up to over 100,000 fires.

There were 860 deaths in the U.S. and 97 deaths in the UK per year.


However you count it, the rate of problems is around an order of
magnitude higher for a 5:1 population.


..andy

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