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International Association of Fire Chiefs Board Approves Plan for Reducing Cooking Fires & Associated Injuries by Focusing on Temperature Limiting Control
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[{"type":"text","content":"International Association of Fire Chiefs Board Approves Plan for Reducing Cooking Fires & Associated Injuries by Focusing on Temperature Limiting ControlInternational Association of Fire Chiefs Board Approves Plan for Reducing Cooking Fires & Associated Injuries by Focusing on Temperature Limiting Control\nPioneering Technology's Safe-T-element is currently the only product available today that provides \"temperature limiting control\" on electric coil ranges\nMississauga, Ontario CANADA, August 22, 2013 /FSC/ - Pioneering Technology Corp. (TSX-V: PTE; OTC BB: PTEFF),(\"Pioneering\"), an energy smart product innovation/consumer goods company and North America's leader in cooking fire prevention technologies, announced today that the International Association of Fire Chief's (IAFC) Board of Directors approved the IAFC Fire & Fire Life Safety Task Force's (FLSS) Report, Positioning Statement and presented their proposed plan for the organization's stated goal of reducing cooking fires and related injuries.  \nThe IAFC has adopted a position paper on residential range-top fire safety http://www.iafc.org/files/1FIREPREV/flss_PositionResidentialRangeTopSafety.pdf drafted by the FLSS . This position and report help chiefs and other fire safety professionals better respond to inquiries about residential cooking safety and more effectively develop community risk reduction outreach programs.\nAs detailed in the report, \"Protecting Life and Property and Reducing Injuries From Fires Originating on Home Ranges\", http://www.iafc.org/files/1FIREPREV/flss_ResidentialRangeTopSafetyReport.pdf home fires and losses dominate the North American fire problem. Fires beginning with cooking appliances account for the largest shares of home structure fires and associated fire injuries in the U.S. and Canada. Electric ranges are by far the leading cause of home cooking appliance fires. The FLSS task group analyzed the characteristics of the home fire problem, assessed the potential of various protection technologies to reduce these fire losses and develop recommendations to reduce these fire losses.\nThe focus of that plan is on promoting temperature limiting technologies that prevent cooking fires from starting in the first place.  The overall conclusions of that report are: \n* Ignition prevention is the only strategy like...