1/ I strongly, strongly, strongly doubt the veracity of this claim first, "30 years ago" was not 1890, when houses were full of wool and cotton 30 years ago was 1991, when furnishings and rugs were much the same as today ; if anything, bc of wealth, we have FEWER plastics nowhttps://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1439884538012835842 …
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7/ whenever you see a report on "America's crumbling infrastructure" or "American houses are now made out of gasoline and explode in 3-5 milliseconds" or whatever, ask yourself: * who generated this report? * ...and what are their financial incentives?
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8/ ("America's crumbling infrastructure" style reports, btw, often originate with either construction firms or unions. Ponder that... )
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9/ > the crumbling infrastructure is real maybe true, but ... cites || GTFOhttps://twitter.com/TFB_Nathaniel_F/status/1440066735483224066 …
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11/ "If your mother says she loves you, check it out" - old newpaper adage "If your mother says she loves you, ponder what her incentives are before RT-ing it" - me
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12/ I remember wearing flame resistant pajamas in the 1970s https://twitter.com/GeoGDF01/status/1440067709195014153 …
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13/ > deaths per fire but I already addressed above how potential-fire-events might turn into NON fires based on materials ... so this is selection bias deaths-per-impalement-by-car-steering-column might be up since 1980 as well. ponder whyhttps://twitter.com/ded_ruckus/status/1440068089706467329 …
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I'm guessing less people passing out on the couch with a lit cigarette these days. The other one I remember being common was greasefires on open-flame gas stoves and chimney fires from never cleaning woodstove flues
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I wonder about kerosene heater usage over time. That seemed to be a bigger deal when I was younger. Off to the googles I go.
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Anecdotal, but in my time as a FF, >80% of residential and commercial structure fires were in-wall electrical in origin. Room contents didn't really play much of a role until signs had been present for a while. Exception would be poorly placed space heaters.
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