Does the Gov't come running to the rescue with funds every time a home is burnt out. Must be a lot of fires in the U S daily. Just scattered all over.

Between 1998 and 2007, there were an average of 397,650 house fires each year. These cause an average of 3,040 deaths and 14,960 injuries every single year. In all, deaths and injuries due to house fires accounted for around 80 percent of the harm to people caused by all fires including forest fires and car fires. The financial losses caused by these house fires amounted to an annual average of hundreds of millions.



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