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Modern Materials Make Houses Burn More Quickly

Today’s house fires burn eight items faster and produce 200 times the amount of smoke that a fire would have 50 years ago… An average-sized room furnished with modern products is fully engulfed in flames in three minutes. The same room, furnished with items 50 years of age took 30 minutes to do the same.

The more aggressive modern fires mean that where before you had time to get organized and get out the door, now, you have mere minutes from the time the smoke alarm goes to escape your burning home.

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