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NFPA Safety Tips

	Be on alert! If you are sleepy or have consumed alcohol don’t use the stove or stovetop.
	Stay in the kitchen while you are frying, grilling, or broiling food. If you leave the kitchen for even a short period of time, turn off the stove.
	If you are simmering, baking, roasting, or boiling food, check it regularly, remain in the home while food is cooking, and use a timer to remind you that you are cooking.
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AUDIO
Lorraine Carli, NFPA Vice President of Communications, talks about cooking safety:

	Simple ways to prevent cooking fires
	Clothes and cooking fires
	When do most cooking fires occur?
	Why you should avoid fighting a cooking fire
	The leading cause of cooking fires

Cooking fires are the #1 cause of home* fires and home fire injuries. More than half (55%) of home cooking fires started with the ignition of food or other cooking materials.

Facts & figures

During 2003-2006, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 6,600 home structure fires per year in which a microwave oven was involved in ignition. These fires caused an annual average of three civilian deaths, 110 civilian injuries and $22 million in direct property damage.
Cooking equipment fires are the leading cause of home structure fires and associated civilian injuries. These fires accounted for 40% of all reported home structure fires and 36% of home civilian injuries.
Twelve percent of the fires occurred when something that could catch fire was too close to the equipment.
Three-fifths (57%) of reported home cooking fire injuries occurred when victims tried to fight the fire themselves.
Thanksgiving is the peak day for home cooking fires.

Source: "Home Fires Involving Cooking Equipment," by Marty Ahrens, November 2009.

Also see: Fact sheet on home fires involving cooking equipment.(PDF, 76 KB)

* Homes are dwellings, duplexes, manufactured homes, apartments, townhouses, rowhouses and condominiums.

NFPA does not test, label or approve any products.
Updated: 11/09

In this Section:

			Cooking safety tips What you need to know about staying fire-safe in the kitchen.					Grills Learn how to use your gas-fueled or charcoal grill safely.

			Reports and statistics NFPA reports and other research on cooking fires.					Microwave ovens One of the leading home products associated with scald burn injuries.

			Keep Your Community Cooking Safely An online toolkit for public educators.					Cooking oil An oil fire can surge up and out of the pan almost instantly.

			Videos and presentations USFA, NFPA produced these videos and presentation tools .					Turkey fryers NFPA discourages the use of outdoor gas-fueled turkey fryers.