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1. 
   toast953 | Oct 28, 2003 05:56am | #1

   I sure read a lot about candles being the suspect. Followed by the ol Hot Ash placed in a Brownbag ( Note; only one g used). then there is the over loaded, undersized extension cord. I'am a guessing in that order, and I hate guessing. Jim J

2. 
   WorkshopJon | Oct 28, 2003 05:59am | #2

   "In a house fire, what are the main causes?"

   Arson? 

   Jon

3. 
   PhillGiles | Oct 28, 2003 06:02am | #3

   Around here:

   - careless smoking

   - cooking fires

   - electrical (extension cords, freyed cords, dirty equipment)

   .

   Phill Giles

   The Unionville Woodwright

   Unionville, Ontario

4. 
   fredsmart48 | Oct 28, 2003 06:37am | #4

   fire is caused by combining 4 elements.

   fule

   oxigen

   igntion sorce

   reaction of the other three elements apond each other.

5. 
   MisterT | Oct 28, 2003 12:36pm | #5

   Stupidity,

   Stupidity,

   Stupidity.

   Mr T

   Do not try this at home!

   I am an Experienced Professional!

6. 
   rjw | Oct 28, 2003 01:28pm | #6

   From the Natiuonal Fire Prevention site: http://www.nfpa.org/catalog/home/index.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1

   Civilian fire deaths in the U.S. and Canada are led by smoking materials (both lighted tobacco products and lighting implements, excluding fires caused by children playing or intentional firesetting with those objects), which account for nearly one-fourth of the total in both countries.

   Statistics on smoking fires are usually presented without including lighting implements in the U.S. and with them in Canada.

   Heating fires are not a larger cause of death in Canada than in the U.S., which reinforces the U.S. pattern that cold weather is not a key to high rates of heating fire deaths. In fact, heating equipment has its largest share of U.S. fire deaths in the comparatively warm

   southeastern states, where winters are shorter and milder. The heating fire problem in these states is dominated by portable and fixed space heaters and is especially severe among the rural poor.

   Note that the U.S. state rates are based on death certificates, not the fire department reports used in the earlier analysis of national totals. These rates will tend to exclude nearly all vehicle fire deaths, which were 8% of the Canadian total in 1995-1999, and some incendiary fire deaths, which may be categorized as homicides or suicides and accounted for 15% of Canada’s civilian fire deaths in 1995-1999.

   http://www.nfpa.org/PDF/OSUScanada.pdf?src=nfpa

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