Based on the National Fire Protection Assoc. (NFPA) heating equipment was the second leading cause of home fires and home fire deaths.

The heating equipment category includes core heating, fixed and portable space heaters and wood stoves. Of these, fixed heating units (wall mounted or freestanding propane heating units) accounted for 17 % of the fires and 28 % of the civilian deaths.

Lightweight heaters (propane and electric) caused far fewer fires, just eight % of the whole, but accounted for forty six % of the total deaths resulting from heating equipment fires.

So how can this be with increasingly stringent lightweight heater manufacturing security standards?

The most effective answer to this issue is from Fire Chief Eric Chichester of Parkersburg, WV, a state which had 6 heater related deaths in October: “The issue isn’t truly with the space heater itself, but with misusing it and leaving it unattended.”

If misuse of the space heater rather than the heater itself is the source of fires, which heater type will be vulnerable to misuse much more frequently; a power fireplace or space heater?

Although a lot less power fireplaces are purchased in North America than electric powered space heating units, close tracking of the occurrences of space alpha heater portable heater (read this blog article from www.juneauempire.com) fires so far this season has yet to reveal an example where an electrically charged fireplace was a contributing factor.

This implies that individuals are less likely to misuse an electrical fireplace and therefore the fireplace is safer. But this begs the question; why are electric fireplaces misused lower than ordinary space heaters?

• 23/12/2021
• un messaggio di: Amore
• Da: minnie17h29