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> I mean, there's still more people who die in fires in the US than in the EU

False - and it's not even close. Europe has almost a full order of magnitude more death from residential fires than the US - house fires caused 2,620 deaths over 5 years in the US [0] vs ~5000/yr in Europe [1].

[0] https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/house-fire-stati... [1] https://www.europeanfiresafetyalliance.org/our-focus/statist...




>house fires caused 2,620 deaths over 5 years in the US

Your source says that was 2,620 per year further down in the article:

>House fires cause an average of 2,620 civilian deaths each year.

Given that the EU has a significantly higher population than the US (~500 million, the EU data may or may not have included the UK, vs ~330 million) the per capita statistics end up fairly close.




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