More than a third of all fires in private homes start in the kitchen

 

What do you think is the biggest cause of all fires in kitchens?

 

More than half of all fires start on the stove.

And that’s because things were put there that didn’t belong there – in other words, the stove was used as a storage surface. In kitchens, fires often develop quickly and cannot be extinguished on their own, and the fumes are highly toxic.

 

The Institut für Schadenverhütung und Schadenforschung der öffentlichen Versicherer e.V. (IFS) has put the following website online for us consumers: https://gefahr-erkannt.de/

 

Here, we consumers can place various items on an accidentally switched-on hob in a virtual fire test house and then see how quickly they catch fire and how the fire spreads. This site is a service of the IFS. www.ifs-ev.org

 

 

 

I have gone through all these options on the website once – and I will definitely NEVER use my stove as a storage surface again – not even quickly for the kitchen towels….