Vision 20/20 and the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy have released a report (available atwww.strategicfire.org) from a national smoke alarm summit that brought together experts working to find solutions to the problem of residential fire deaths. More than 3,000 people were killed in fires in the United States last year, or one every 2 hours and 41 minutes. Almost 16,000 were injured in these fires that caused $9.8 billion in damage, according to the National Fire Protection Association. Although smoke alarms can cut the risk of death in half, based on its experience in homesafetyvisits done across the country, Vision 20/20 estimates a need for more than 100 million smoke alarms in homes today.
Fifty-nine representatives from the fire service, academia, government, non-profit and private sector convened for the one-day summit. The goal was to develop consensus recommendations to help guide future actions focusing on evidence-based policy and practices, priority research gaps to be addressed and steps needed to encourage wider installation of smoke alarms.
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The top four action items identified by the participants, in order of priority, are:
- Conduct a national census (or representative in-home survey sample) on the prevalence and characteristics of smoke alarms.
- Promote fire department home safety visits that use best practices in installation and education.
- Establish a task force (that includes fire service members and data users) to make recommendations on enhancing the utility of the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS).
- Encourage technology developments that would improve the utility and consumer friendliness of smoke alarms.
A task force, with expertise across the technological, data collection, human behavioral and educational messaging spectrum, has been formed to follow-up on the issues presented in the report. The task force will present its findings to Vision 20/20, which will then be shared with the public.
报告的副本，告知行动的证据：提高美国家庭中烟雾报警使用使用的共识优先事项可从20/20的视觉上获得www.strategicfire.org.
This summit and report was funded through a grant from theFEMA援助消防员赠款计划到20/20的愿景，一个项目消防工程师 - 美国分支机构in collaboration with the约翰·霍普金斯伤害研究与政策中心.
