The Delaware State Fire School and local fire departments announce that May 17-23 is National Home Fire Sprinkler Week across America. Home fires: No prevention strategy has as much documented life safety effectiveness as fire sprinklers The fire problem in the U.S. is overwhelmingly a home fire problem. According to the National Fire Protection Association’s U.S. data, 92 percent of all civilian structure fire deaths and 86 percent of all civilian structure fire injuries resulted from home fires. Quite clearly, any improvements in overall fire safety must be improvements in home fire safety, and no strategy has as much documented life safety effectiveness as installed fire sprinklers. Fires today “Burn Faster and Kill Quicker”. Research conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology has shown that home fires become deadly in as few as three minutes.