A deadly fire at a house in Brooklyn early on Wednesday was another frustrating reminder for firefighters of how many fire deaths are preventable, reports The New York Times.
Since Friday, five people have died and four people have been injured in house fires across New York City.
Candles were the cause of two of the fires, including one on Friday in the Bronx that took the lives of three small children. An electric space heater sparked the fire on Wednesday morning in Brooklyn that killed a taxi driver and his mother. None of the homes had a working smoke detector, officials said.
Cooler temperatures typically correspond to a spike in fires as people switch on old space heaters or even stoves and oven burners for additional heat in drafty homes. Smoking in bed, poorly wired electronics and cooking accidents remain persistent problems, according to the Fire Department.
But it is the absence of smoke detectors that links most fire-related deaths, officials said.
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