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With Thanksgiving next week, The Times thought it would be a good time to share some safety tips before the holiday.

With Thanksgiving next week, The Times thought it would be a good time to share some safety tips before the holiday.

Have, i am so proud that they have recognized that this is an initiative that is worthy of epa support. >> $17.6 trillion in debt, but we've got 9 million to study cooking stoves at several universities. >> how big a problem is it? >> the world health organization says that cooking stoves, smoky fires contribute to 4.3 million premature deaths per year. what does contribute mean? does it mean that cooking fires create 4.3 million premature deaths? no. a mere contribution to those deaths. so look, we're saying we're going to spend our money to study stoves for over there. i think it has legitim...

Kitchen stove in your house. >> how so? >> you ever get tired of being pushed around? >> yes. >> because i think bureaucrats are pushing us around already and they want to do it more. the shower head in your bathroom, your toilet flush, your top loaded dryer, your washing machine, your light bulbs, they're already dictated and regulated by the epa. now stoves. they've given out $9 million to six colleges to go study clean burning stoves. this is for third world countries, developing world people where they use cow dung and wood for cooking fires. apparently it's to help them. but i sense a bac...

That sounds like somebody -- the roof, real depressed. >> is that the reason they started doing that? >> we will google that and find out. very depressing version of that song. >> the other one would have been better though this is not a great story. so the kitchen stoves will be working overtime today. it may not come as a surprise to know that three times as many cooking fires happen on thanksgiving. >> abc's linzie janis has tips on keeping your turkey day from going up in smoke. >> reporter: watch from the point of view of a firefighter just how dangerous a house fire can be. experts war...