In the United States, approximately 85% of all fire deaths are attributed to residential fires. In 2007, residential fires caused almost 2,900 civilian fire deaths, 14,000 civilian fire injuries, and more than $7.5 billion in property damage.

Reax Engineering fire experts can assist clients with reconstruction and analysis of residential fires using state of the art computer fire modeling.

Some aspects of a residential fire that can be analyzed with computer fire modeling include fire growth rates; time to activation of smoke detectors, heat detectors, and sprinklers; window breakage; onset of flashover; and loss of tenability along the means of egress pathway.

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