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Statistics
Fire & Burns
Each year there are more than 10,000 residential fires in Australia. Two out of three children killed in house fires are under the age of five. Fire and burns are a significant risk for Australian children. Each year burns are responsible for:
20 to 25 child deaths
600 child admissions to hospital
6000 child presentations to emergency centres
Scalds
Around 1200 Australian children under five years of age come to hospital emergency departments each year for the treatment of scalds. This is equivalent to 23 young children a week, or more than three a day.
About one in four of these children (300 annually) go on to be admitted to hospital.
Of young children admitted to hospital for scalds, one in five are injured so severely that they need to be in hospital for at least a week.
In the 2001 National Health Survey, 6% of the 2.25 million respondents reporting an injury indicated that their injury was the result of either a burn or a scald. This equates to approximately 135,000 people. A significant number of those injured will be hospitalised and sadly many will die as a result of their injury.
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