2009年9月,美国消防协会(NFPA)发布专题报告,介绍了2008年美国重大多人死亡火灾的情况。NFPA将死亡5人以上(含)的居住建筑火灾、死亡3人以上(含)的其他建筑火灾和非建筑火灾确定为重大多人死亡火灾,2008年美国共发生此类火灾19起(13起居住建筑火灾、3起非居住建筑火灾、3起非建筑火灾),造成包括12名消防队员和26名6岁以下儿童在 In September 2009, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) issued a special report on the deaths and fires of many major U.S. people in 2008. The NFPA identified residential and building fires with more than 5 deaths and other building and non-building fires that killed more than 3 people as the deaths and fires of a significant number of people, including 19 such fires in the United States in 2008 (13 Residential building fires, 3 non-residential building fires and 3 non-building fires), resulting in the presence of 12 firefighters and 26 children under 6