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Fire Prevention Tips |
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Here are a few fire prevention tips for you and
your family.
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Remember, fire prevention is everyone's job. It is important to remember that fire prevention in more than a week or a month. It is an everyday thing. Always be ready for FIRE. No one wants or expects a fire in their home, but fires do happen. These tips will help you protect your home and family from the dangers of fire and the damage a fire can cause.
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STOP, DROP,
& ROLL
This basic skill can be taught to very young children. The important thing is to cover the face with the hands and roll around until the fire is out. One method that can be used to emphasize this is to tape small balloons to a child and have them roll around until all the balloons have popped. Remember that adults need to know how to Stop, Drop, and Roll as well. |
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WORKING SMOKE DETECTORS Smoke detectors save lives. It's that simple. Have a smoke detector on
each living level of your home, and change the batteries once a year (when
you change your clock in the fall is a good time). Most detectors recommend a
monthly test. Read the instructions that came with your smoke detector. |
STAY LOW AND GO
If you and your family are faced with a fire at your home, you need to remember that smoke and heat rise. That's the main reason for staying low. But there are some toxic gasses from a fire that can actually settle to the floor. For that reason, we teach that it's best to say on your hands and knees - with your face at about the same level as most electrical outlets and get out of the house. The most important thing is to GO! You may have only seconds to escape from fire. |
GET OUT AND STAY OUT
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Now once you've gotten out of the fire building, STAY OUT! Many people have been killed or seriously injured while returning to a burning building from which they just successfully escaped . No possession, no matter how dear, is worth losing your life over. It is important to pre plan a meeting place, outside the home, where you and your family are to meet in the event of a fire. Go there and stay there. |
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E.D.I.T.H. - Exit Drills In The Home. We all think we know how to get out of our houses, but that's usually during the day, or with the lights on. During a fire, familiar landmarks will disappear, and normal exit routes may be blocked by debris or fire. Conduct fire drills in your home. One tactic we recommend you us is to declare an exit blocked, forcing your family to use an alternate exit. You can also use a technique firefighters sometimes use to drill for rescues - blindfold family members (or at least have them close their eyes) and have them find their way out of the house. Be sure to monitor them so they don't take a tumble down stairs, etc, or somehow tip over the china cabinet. Make sure they STAY LOW as they GO so that they get used to crawling and finding their way. Don't forget about that meeting place! |
DIALING
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CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (C.P.R.) CPR can saves lives IF it is started in a timely manner, and is done properly. You can learn all you need to know about CPR in a day, or a couple of evenings. Just think - you give up a day out of your busy schedule so someone, perhaps a loved one, can have many more days. Contact your local American Red Cross or American Heart Association chapter for information on courses near you. If there aren't any, see what you can do to organize them. |
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FIRE EXTINGUISHERS Be familiar with your fire extinguishers (you do have fire extinguishers, don't you?), and what they can do. Read the instructions that came with the extinguisher, as well as the directions on the extinguisher itself. Most fire extinguishers operate in a similar manner:
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We offer these tip so that you can plan with your family what
to do in case of fire so that you and your family make it to
see tomorrow.
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