Toronto Community Housing and Toronto Fire Services Celebrate 1000th
Safe-T-element installation
TORONTO and LAS VEGAS, June
9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Toronto Community Housing and
Toronto Fire Services announced
today at the National Fire Protection Association's Conference and
Expo in Las Vegas the installation
of the 1000th new electric stove equipped with the Safe-T-element
cooking system in a Toronto Community Housing facility. The
Safe-T-element is a Canadian product innovation that helps prevent
stovetop cooking fires by controlling the high end temperature of
the burners so that you can still cook efficiently but common
household materials will not ignite and it saves energy. Stovetop
cooking fires are the number one cause of household fire in
North America.
As one part of a comprehensive fire safety plan, Toronto
Community Housing began installing Safe-T-element in two of its
highest profile urban renewal projects - Rivertowne and Regent
Park.
"We are pleased to announce that in the past two years we have
not had any cooking fires in any of the housing units where we have
the Safe-T-elements installed," said Brian
Laur, Manager of Insurance and Risk Management, Toronto
Community Housing. "Now in addition to the new developments we are
now mandating that all new replacement stoves in existing buildings
be equipped with the Safe-T-element cooking system."
According to the Canadian Fire Safety Association cooking
equipment was identified as the leading ignition sources attributed
to preventable home fires in Ontario, averaging 1,494 fires annually or 24%
of all preventable home fires. Between 2004 and January 2010 Toronto Community Housing
experienced 127 cooking fires at a cost of $2.1 million.
"Cooking fires continue to be a leading cause of fire deaths in
our City. The best way to fight a fire is to stop them before they
start," said Frank Lamie, Deputy
Fire Chief of Toronto Fire
Services. "We applaud Toronto Community Housing for being a leader
in fire prevention by installing Safe-T-elements in their housing
units. Tenants will now have further safety measures in place to
prevent cooking fires."
Toronto Community Housing is Canada's largest social housing landlord with
approximately 60,000 housing units that are home to more than
164,000 tenants with low and moderate income - about six per cent
of the City of Toronto's
population.
In a 2009 Study by the Office of the Fire Marshal, stovetop
fires incident rates in multi-unit buildings were more than two
times higher than in detached dwellings and stovetop fire incident
rates in subsidized residential dwellings were three times higher
than in non-subsidized residential dwellings.
The patented Safe-T-element cooking system was developed by
Pioneering Technology Corp. of Mississauga, Ontario and is the only
technology of its kind available that helps prevent stovetop
cooking fires before they start. Safe-T-element is installed in
hundreds of multi-residential public, senior, university and
military housing developments across North America. Safe-T-element has been awarded
the U.S. Home Safety Council's Commendation Award for Product
Innovation for Consumer Safety.
About Toronto Community Housing:
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Toronto Community Housing is the largest social housing provider
in Canada and the second largest
in North America. It is home to
about 164,000 low and moderate-income tenants in 58,500 households,
including seniors, families, singles, refugees, recent immigrants
to Canada and people with special
needs. The mandate of Toronto Community Housing is to provide
quality housing for low and moderate income households and to
create community conditions that minimize risk and promote
resiliency. For more information contact: Brian Laur, Manager of Insurance and Risk
Management, Toronto Community Housing at 416-981-4332 or visit
www.torontohousing.ca.
About Toronto Fire Services:
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Toronto Fire provides services
for Canada's largest city and
sixth largest government, and home to a diverse population of about
2.6 million people. It is the economic engine of Canada and one of the greenest and most
creative cities in North America.
Toronto has won numerous awards
for quality, innovation and efficiency in delivering public
services. Toronto's government is
dedicated to prosperity, opportunity and livability for all its
residents. Media contact: Toronto
Fire Services, 416-338-0763.
About Pioneering Technology Corp and the Safe-T-element Cooking System:
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Pioneering is an "Energy Smart" product innovation company based
in Mississauga, Ontario, that
engineers and brings to market energy smart solutions for consumer
products making them safer, smarter and/or more efficient. The
patented Safe-T-element(R) cooking system was engineered to help
prevent stove top cooking fires, the number one cause of fire in
North America, and to reduce the
amount of electricity required to cook. The Safe-T-element(R)
cooking system is available as both a retrofit and pre-installed on
new stoves. For Further Information contact: Kevin R. Callahan, President and CEO of
Pioneering, at (905) 712-2061 ext. 222 or visit
www.pioneeringtech.com.
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SOURCE Pioneering Technology Corp.