| The tragedy of losing your home, your | | | | Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, and all |
| personal belongings, or your business from | | | | of Orange County, will handle your needs with |
| damage that has occurred due to a fire, is | | | | compassion. They will assist you and your |
| comparable to that of losing a loved one. A | | | | family in locating only experienced medical |
| fire can cause a loss that can be an | | | | professionals for injuries you have sustained |
| extremely devastating experience for everyone | | | | and need treatment for, such as melted skin, |
| involved to have to endure. When a person or | | | | scarring, the loss of your ability to sweat, |
| family has become a burn victim or a death | | | | and any nerve damage you might be suffering |
| occurs due to a fire, this devastation that | | | | from. |
| everyone goes through is magnified many times | | | | |
| over. | | | | Most people may not be aware of the fact that |
| | | | statistics have proven that at least fifty |
| Sadly, for children who are in the age group | | | | percent of all burn injuries that individuals |
| of fourteen and younger, fires and burn | | | | suffer from, are preventable. The staggering |
| injuries that end up resulting in accidental | | | | number of burns that are reported each year |
| death in homes in the United States, are the | | | | reach a total of approximately two point four |
| most common cause of accidental death. For | | | | million, and one-third of preschool age burn |
| adults, deaths that result from injuries that | | | | injuries are sadly created or caused by a |
| were caused by fires in the home, is third in | | | | child. The Journal of Burn Care & |
| being the cause for accidental deaths. | | | | Rehabilitation, May/June 1992 states between |
| | | | eight and twelve thousand patients who |
| Being the victim of a burn injury can mean a | | | | sustain burn injuries will die, and as many |
| lifetime of both physical scars and emotional | | | | as one million will suffer from very |
| scarring. Leading professionals who have the | | | | significant or permanent disabilities which |
| expertise and specialize in burn injury | | | | are the direct result of their burn injury. |
| cases, that have occurred in West Los | | | | |