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A burn is damage to your body's tissues caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, sunlight, or radiation. Scalds from hot liquids and steam, building fires and flammable liquids and gases are the most common causes of burns. Another kind is an inhalation injury, caused by breathing smoke. There are three types of burns:
Burns of skin or other tissue are caused by fire, radiant heat, radiation, chemical, or electrical contact. Thermal burns result from any external heat source (flame, hot liquids, heated solid objects, or hot gases). Fire-related deaths may also result from inhalation of carbon monoxide and other toxic products of combustion, including cyanide.