Summer Recreation Safety

Summer Burn Safety

Some Impacts of Summer Fires and Burns

§Propane or charcoal grills:

–6,000 fires

§Fireworks:

–10,000 injuries, including 4,500 children

–6,000 fires

–$8 million in property damage

§Lightning:

–1,000 injuries, up to 100 deaths

(Sources: National Fire Protection Association

National Center for Health Statistics)


	Propane or charcoal grills are involved in up to 6,000 reported fires each year.
	Fireworks are involved in up to 10,000 injuries each year, almost half of them children, along with 6,000 fires and at least $8 million in property damage.
	Lightning causes 1,000 injuries and 75 to 100 deaths.
	These are just the injuries treated at hospitals and fires responded to by fire departments. Many more such injuries and incidents are not reported. Some of them may be are just as serious and disruptive to people’s lives as most of those known to authorities.
	*(Bridge)* The best example of unreported but potentially disruptive injury is our first prevention topic, sunburn. What should we know about sun’s most important hazard, ultraviolet rays?