Nursing home facilities average 2,300 fires nationally per year. But having a fire sprinkler system helps control or extinguish fires before they ever get out of control.
The national fire statistics for nursing home facilities are surprising. The sites average 2,300 fires nationally per year. Thanks to fire sprinkler systems, most are controlled or extinguished by the operation of one or two sprinklers and seldom make the news. But in the 18 worst fires since 1970, all shared the common theme of lack of sprinklers in the patient rooms and adjoining corridors. The death toll from those 18 fires is more than 200 people.