With less than a week to go before Thanksgiving, Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue is reminding residents of some house fire dangers associated with the holiday. According to the National Fire Protection Association, more than three times as many home cooking fires occur on Thanksgiving Day than any other day of the year. There were 1,600 reported home cooking fires on Thanksgiving 2017, a 238% increase over the daily average. Unattended cooking was the leading cause of these fires.