Residential Dryer Fires… You mean I have to clean?

New report from USFA on Residential Dryer fires. Chelan Home Inspection Services

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The International Mechanical and Residential Building Codes specify “UL2158A Listed” materials to be considered as code compliant. Listed products should meet and/or exceed flame burning tests of at least 430 degrees Fahrenheit.

According to the report:

An estimated 2,900 clothes dryer fires in residential buildings are reported to U.S. fire departments each year and cause an estimated 5 deaths, 100 injuries, and $35 million in property loss.

Clothes dryer fire incidence in residential buildings was higher in the fall and winter months, peaking in January at 11 percent.

Failure to clean (34 percent) was the leading factor contributing to the ignition of clothes dryer fires in residential buildings.

Dust, fiber, and lint (28 percent) and clothing not on a person (27 percent) were, by far, the leading items first ignited in clothes dryer fires in residential buildings.

Fifty-four percent of clothes dryer fires in residential buildings were confined to the object of origin.

Report Link-

http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v13i7.pdf

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