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THE TRUE CAUSES OF MOST FIRE DEATHS IN AMERICA
On January 5, 2009, a fire occurred within the Christians in Action shelter in Paris, Texas. This fire, as with the great majority of fires in the United States will be blamed on the owners or occupants or both. The local fire department and the state fire regulatory policies will be given a whitewash. The local authorities will say that there were violations of fire codes as there always are. There are more than two hundred codes created by an organization called the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) that cranks out hundreds (or thousands) of code revisions every year. So, any building more than a couple of years old, will be in violation of the most recent code revisions. Besides, the fire officials themselves are familiar with but a fraction of them and probably understand even less. But, claiming a facility was in violation of codes will always neatly shift the blame for the tragedy from the fire regulatory system to the owners/managers/occupants or anyone else except government.
Perhaps the most convenient and most often used “blame-the-others” strategy is to report to the press that the smoke detectors were “missing”, or that the battery was “missing or dead”. If there is any value to that so called “smoke” detector the fire officials help sell, it is that it is a most useful “blame- shifter” when a fire kills occupants. It is an automatic “we are not at blame” tool. Perhaps it’s nice that it has that use because, as a warning device for fire, it is about as useful as a broken promise. Failures of this phony so called “smoke” detector has resulted in at least 75,000 fire deaths since it was introduced during the 1960s with deliberately falsified performance claims that were “certified-as-true” by fraudulent fire test programs at Underwriters’ Laboratories (UL).
The fundamental reason why America may be the most dangerous place on earth from fire is because the fire regulatory system is about as honest as a three dollar bill. How deadly is the American Holocaust? Here’s how it is described by an agency of the federal government.
“The U.S. fire problem, on a per capita basis, is one of the worst in the industrial world.To put this in context, the annual losses from floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters combined in the United States average just a fraction of those from fires.” (Fire in
the United States’, 13th Edition, Federal Emergency Management Agency Page 1, Oct 2004)
All those whose minds are closed absolutely, and know with certainty that the fire officials would not be promoting ionization type smoke detectors if they were defective and deadly, may toss this report in the circular file right now. However, there are some very enlightened people out there relative the way government sometimes performs. Those enlightened ones have discovered that high level government bureaucrats sometimes do very stupid (or corrupt) things, and that once started stupidity (or corruption) can proceed forever; and that those below the bureaucrats will follow like sheep. So, if you are one of the few enlightened ones, you will find mind blowing information on the internet, researched by others and being handed to you on a silver platter . . . or at least on the desktop. It’s available to you here:
www.TheWorldFireSafetyFoundation.org • www.Firecrusade.com www.AmericasHolocaust.org
RICHARD M. PATTON, FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEER AUTHOR, THE AMERICAN HOME IS A FIRE TRAP
President of: THE CRUSADE AGAINST FIRE DEATHS, INC.POST OFFICE BOX 196 ● CITRUS HEIGHTS, CA 95611
PHONE 916 721 7700 [email protected]
