New York City Fires:  Still A Danger Though Numbers Are Dropping

Few events pose as much deadly danger as large industrial fires and those that ravage our private homes and apartment buildings. Fortunately, this city is now seeing a decline in annual fires. A January 9, 2017 New York Times article states that fire deaths in this city are now at their lowest in more than one hundred years. While even one death remains a tragedy, we only had 48 people die in fires in 2016. You must go back to 1970 when 310 people died in New York City to find the highest number of annual fire deaths during the past...

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