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Holiday fire hazards increase during the winter season, with cooking fires prevalent.

Thanksgiving Day sees a 400% rise in home cooking fires, NFPA reports.

Christmas tree fires often start from electrical equipment, warns Unified Fire Authority.

MAGNA — We are coming into an especially flammable time of year, loaded with holiday fire hazards: grease fires while cooking, mismangement of the turkey-fryer, thirsty Christmas trees.

"The holidays are absolutely busy for us," said Unified Fire Authority's Benjamin Porter.

The numbers are staggering. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has said, " nearly 156,000 fires in the United States occur during the winter holiday season. " They cost hundreds of millions of dollars in damage every

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