Immediate Nationwide Home Fire Data Available

Immediate Nationwide Home Fire Data Available

Every weekday, USFA’s Quick Response (QR) program scours media websites across the nation and lists news accounts of non-arson fatal home fires on the Residential Fire Fatalities in the News webpage.

Spreadsheets containing yearly Quick Response data, since 2007, are available for download. Your department can use this information to supplement media interviews, press releases, publications, community presentations or enhance fire safety outreach. QR data can be utilized in a variety of ways, including:

• Identifying yearly or seasonal trends through an array of variables such as cause, number of deaths or age. You can compare and assess the trends in your state against a neighboring state.
• Comparing back-to-back calendar year or seasonal data.

Quick Response data should be considered a general reflection of recent fatal home fires that occur across the nation and not official residential fire data.

You can receive daily Quick Response summaries automatically through RSS or e-mail. Your department can repost Quick Response information on its website by using the RSS feed. To view Quick Response data or subscribe for automatic Quick Response updates through RSS or e-mail, go to: http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/subjects/fireprev/qr/fatalities/index.shtm

Ask a Colleague: Are You a Member of the Quick Response Media Corps?

Is your colleague a part of the 3,200-member Quick Response Media Corps? Members receive valuable fire safety materials and are some of the first to learn about USFA's fire safety initiatives. Invite your colleagues to become a member of the QRMC today!

Benefits of being a QRMC member:

• Some of the first to know about new USFA fire safety initiatives
• Receive 15 cause-based, USFA fire safety fact sheets for a general audience, in English and Spanish
• Receive 15 cause-based, fire safety fact sheets for use in media interviews
• Receive six, 30-second live-read radio PSA scripts on smoke alarms, escape planning, careless smoking and fire safety for children and older adults.

For more information about USFA’s Quick Response Media Corps or to enroll online, go to http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/subjects/fireprev/qr/index.shtm