| Fire report | Damage and injury | Reason of damage | Existing Fire protection system | Fire safety problem |
| Fire incident involved a 6000 square foot two-story single family residence with a full basement that was built in 1998-Kansas (NIOSH 2011 [20] ) | 1 killed, roof collapse, wooden walls and doors | Spread smoke and fire from roof, open doors and corridors | Fire alarm | lack of an adequate fire sprinkler system and isolated places against fire spread |
| Fire in small house one-story with wooden frame structure in Danville (McGee 2015 [News-Gazzete 4/28/2015]) | Destruction of front and roof of the house | Occupant was asleep and fire has spread from kitchen to rooms | non-equipped | lack of a fire alarm to awaken the occupant or alarm nearest fire-office |
| Fire incident in a residential building in Peekskill-Cortland, NY (Pappas 2015 [21] ) | Destruction of building envelope | Spread fire from open windows to building envelope | non-equipped | lack of fire sprinkler system or fire proof paint on the building envelope |
| A fire spread test from masonry walls (Mulligan Products 2015 [25] ) | Melting plugs behind of the wall | Spread fire from small holes of the plugs in the wall | non-equipped | lack of fireproof box for plugs |
| Fire in a residential building (Hevern 2011 [26] ) | Burning sofa | Fire was controlled by sprinkler top of the sofa | Fire alarm and sprinkler | lack of isolated places against smoke spread |