"Preparing food at home?! Stand by your pan! Unattended cooking is the number one cause of home fires! This message brought to you by the CPSC discourse hijacker bot!"
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Nope. Disabled people use stand that way all the time. My blind friends all say "See you later" and "Did you see___?" My Deaf friends all say"Did you hear from___?" and "I heard that…". I say "Stand up for [a cause]" and "Stand on the side of___".
"Stand by your pan" is not disrespectful *at all*.
Sorry all. Threw this over the fence this AM like we were tossing an apple core to the deer and then everyone liked it. If you ever want to know more about our data, the answer is some scientist/epidemiologist/researcher put together a report and now it's on our website: https://www.cpsc.gov/Research--Statistics/Fire
I know an example in my neighborhood of a home fire that began with unattended cooking. The home fire and injury to the homeowner was very sad for everyone who lives here.
It was overwhelmingly cooking-related during my 30+ years. Ironically, the last fatality fire I attended (in 2017) was caused by a cigarette lighter. Candles were another major cause in my experience. 🕯️🚬
My downstairs neighbor in Mesa used supplemental O2 and had signs up warning people why not to smoke near their unit. (I, a then-undx stealth asthmatic, was a peripheral beneficiary of people not smoking nearby.)
Hard to go back too much further as the National Fire Incident Reporting System only began collecting data in the mid-70s, and the voluntary reporting was spotty. NFIRS will soon be replaced by the vastly improved National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS)! https://www.usfa.fema.gov/nfirs/neris/
Even if this is my PERSONAL account, I'm kinda jazzed about NERIS, as it's been fully designed, developed, and deployed by UL Research Institutes' Fire Safety Research Institute... 😁 https://fsri.org/programs/neris
I was just discussing with a friend how firefighting work fell off so much when everyone stopped smoking that they started focusing on responding to car crashes. This was in MA.
We've been having conversations here for 20+ years on how to reduce costs by not sending full truck rolls out to medical cases since they account for a VAST majority of fire dept calls
Fire departments are often among the leading opponents of safer streets initiatives in cities, too! The same things that reduce car crashes make it harder to maneuver the giant trucks they don’t need. Europeans and, like, Tokyo have smaller trucks that work fine in dense cities.
Wow! “opponents of safer streets initiatives…” when these actual initiatives would cut down on them having to respond in the first place. Aren’t they kind of shooting themselves in the foot?
My mom lived in an apartment for senior citizens. They had silent, string pull, fire alarms in every bathroom adjacent to a towel rack. It seemed like the entire FD responded to the accidental tripping of those alarms. It happened four times in one week. There has to be a better system.
Like vet work on dogs hit by cars when they brought in leash laws.
--I always thought leash laws were about rogue dogs bothering people. But my vet corrected me.
I tell clients that the #1 health benefit of neutering male dogs is that they do not climb fences/dash our doors, etc and get hit by a car whenever a female dog is in heat.
The majority of hit by car dogs I have seen are intact males.
They also get into wicked fights over these girlfriends.
See there you go. I had not considered neutering as part of the same story. Even now, after thinking about the other all these years, I had not made the connection.
Not just cigarettes, but also mattress regulations. But in general, fire safety regulations and building codes have come so far that fire departments had to diversify to keep their jobs
After reading the first line my mind proceeded to read the rest of the post to the tune of “It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp.” Sung by Terrance Howard and Tarraji P. Henson in the series Hustle and Flow. Definitely didn’t get a Tammy Wynette vibe. Sometimes I over think things.
After watching the neighbor's 3500sf house burn to the ground because of a cooking fire, I turn it off when I leave the room even if I'm just boiling water.
Sometimes it's hard here in the kitchen
Cooking all your food in just one pan
You'll try pancakes
But your heart aches
They scorch and stick
You just can't understand
About half my untyped discourse responses yesterday amounted to "Okay but how does that help when both of us have asthma acting up and even the stool in the kitchen isn't enough to enable Stand By Your Pan?"
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"Stand by your pan" is not disrespectful *at all*.
I don’t remember what he was cooking.
The US Fire Admintration site has many statistics on residential fires.
person at home on hospice
hospital bed and oxygen set up
they light up a cigarette
fatal fire follows
cotton and wool absorb the extra oxygen
now much easier to ignite
burns faster and hotter
same idea as what happened with Apollo 1 disaster
My downstairs neighbor in Mesa used supplemental O2 and had signs up warning people why not to smoke near their unit. (I, a then-undx stealth asthmatic, was a peripheral beneficiary of people not smoking nearby.)
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/nfirs/neris/
https://fsri.org/programs/neris
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6siaya/til_that_when_smoking_was_allowed_on_aircraft/?rdt=41741
Staff are not allowed to lift a resident off the floor when they fall bc liability.
So the whole fire department is dispatched.
Sigh.
--I always thought leash laws were about rogue dogs bothering people. But my vet corrected me.
The majority of hit by car dogs I have seen are intact males.
They also get into wicked fights over these girlfriends.
Cooking all your food in just one pan
You'll try pancakes
But your heart aches
They scorch and stick
You just can't understand
Thank you CPSC discourse hijacker bot :P