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Ignorance is Risky: Why We Still Need Fire Safety Messages

Twice each year, Prevention 1st renews its educational campaign: “Change Your Clock; Test Your Alarms; Practice Your Home Fire Drill; Alarm Goes Off You Get Out, www.homefiredrill.org.”

It’s important to keep getting out these basic fire safety messages. Because, people still just don’t get it. And ignorance can be deadly.

Several surveys over recent years continue to find that 80%-90% of Americans feel safer from fires at home than in a public building, or feel equally safe in both locations.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t be more wrong.

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