The corporation says Ontario averages more than 6,000 preventable home fires annually andthe majority of these fires start in the kitchen. Sixty-eight per cent of all home cooking fires involve stove-tops, and unattended cooking accounts for sixty-nine per cent of these fires.

Forty-three per cent of all stove-top fires occur in multi-unit dwellings

Social Housing Services Corporation, which provides services to municipal housing agencies across the province, is working with the Electrical Safety Authority and the Office of the Fire Marshall to educate social housing tenants about safe practices, and to recommend stove-top fire prevention products such as the Safe-T Element, which has been endorsed by fire prevention officials and safety organizations across North America.