Fire related deaths on the rise in North Carolina, new report shows

The North Carolina Office of State Fire Marshal released its 2025 Fire Fatality Report that states 27 people in North Carolina have already died in fires just this year. A statistic which they ...

Fire deaths rose last year in NC. Here’s who was more likely to die and when.

A majority of people died in homes without working smoke alarms, according to the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
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NC State Fire Marshal releases 2025 Fire Fatality Report

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCT) — The North Carolina Office of State Fire Marshal has released its 2025 Fire Fatality Report, revealing that 159 people died in fires in the state last year. The number of ...

NC Fire Marshal’s Office reports upward trend in fire deaths this year, listing several in ENC

Fatal fires have been reported in Beaufort, Bertie, Duplin and Pitt counties in 2026.