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have about 17 minutes to safely evacuate a home, but the time decreases to about 3 minutes in a home <br />built with modern materials and furnished with newer, synthetic furniture. "Today we have many more <br />synthetic materials in our homes. Synthetic materials are not bad, but today the backing on your carpeting, <br />the drapes, even the stuffing in your mattress and your pillows is synthetic material. And this does burn <br />hotter and faster, and this is something that homeowners should be very much aware of." John <br />Drengenberg, consumer safety director for Underwriters Laboratories. <br />Two recent studies detail the relationship between fire and engineered wood construction assemblies - <br />notable, that they burn quicker and fail faster than their dimensional lumber counterparts. NFPA Journal <br />July/August 2009 <br />