had roughly 17 minutes to escape a house fire from the moment smoke alarms sounded.Doors & Windows
Today? You may have only 3 to 4 minutes.
What changed? Our homes.
Modern interiors are filled with synthetic materials: foam-filled furniture, polyester textiles, plastic electronics, and engineered wood products. When these materials burn, they ignite more readily, burn hotter, release highly toxic gases, and spread fire up to five times faster than the natural materials used in decades past.
Critical fact: Most fire-related deaths aren’t caused by flames—they result from smoke
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