What are common household fire hazards?

What are common household fire hazards?

Stacy Gerlich (Fire Captain & Paramedic) gives expert video advice on: What are common household fire hazards?; How can I prevent household electrical fires?; How can I prevent household fireplace fires? and more...

Most common fire hazards, as far as household objects are concerned, would be again appliances, such as curling irons which are a huge fire hazard! Hair-dryers as well, because what happens is on the back of the hair-dryer, there's a little screen, and that gets filled up with lint, and often people, they don't think about cleaning it up, and then it gets hot, overheats, and it could catch on fire. The other thing include clothes dryers, as indeed we see a very high incidence of single-family dwelling fires as a result of that, and that's because over time, there is this tremendous build-up of the lint that happens behind the appliance itself and the wall. Even though you have the vent tubing, it doesn't mean that this stuff doesn't seep out a little bit and collect. And it gets pretty bad and this is a really good source for fire to happen there. Those are the most common household fire hazards.