Another tragic fire. Another family destroyed. Another community in shock. Another fire department reeling.
It’s a headline you never want to read, but even more devastating during the holiday season; “5 Ohio children killed in house fire.”
I spoke with Samantha Hoffmann, a fire prevention officer with the Barrie (ON) Fire and Emergency Service about the incident. “It's just absolutely devastating. I can't even imagine for the family or for those firefighters that were on scene. And it's all so preventable,” she said. We say preventable, because in the U.S. every year, roughly 75 percent of fires in residential dwellings are the result of adult human behaviors.