Winter Fire Safety Tips (Borough of Pleasant Hills, PA)

(Source: Borough of Pleasant Hills, PA) Winter means a lot of things: snow days, sledding, hot cocoa, holiday gift-giving. It also means, more than in any other season during the year in America, residential building fires. Every year in the United States, winter home fires cause 905 deaths and result in over $2 million in property loss on average, according to the United States Fire Administration (USFA). Research also shows that fires in one- and two-family dwellings account for a whopping 67 percent of all winter home fires, and such fires occur mainly...