Table 3.
Residential fire incidents characteristics and relative risk of residential fires that resulted in health service utilisation and those that did not result in health service utilisation based on presence or absence of sprinkler systems from 2005 to 2014, NSW, Australia.
| N* = 43,707 |
Residential fire-related incidents |
Social housing vs non-social housing |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics |
Social |
Non-social |
Total |
RR | 95%CI | ||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | ||||
| Sprinkler system | |||||||||
| Present | 11 | 0.5 | 385 | 0.9 | 396 | 0.9 | 0.51 | 0.26 – 0.86* | |
| Not present | 1,759 | 73.7 | 22,358 | 54.1 | 24,117 | 55.2 | 2.27 | 2.08 – 2.48*** | |
| Undetermined | 618 | 25.9 | 18,576 | 45.0 | 19,194 | 43.9 | 0.45 | 0.41 – 0.49*** | |
Significance (p value) = * < 0.05, ** < 0.001, *** < 0.0001.