Raise Your Level of Fire Protection at Your Home

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Raise Your Level of Fire Protection at Your Home

• When there is a time to enjoy your favorite
  holiday traditions, celebrating around the table,
  and making new memories with friends and family.
  To ensure that the festivities are both happy and
  safe, here are some useful holiday season fire
  safety tips from QuickShipFire.
• Fire safety is a fundamental consideration in
  building design and management, but
  unfortunately, one that is often
  overlookedfirewalls are today more likely to be
  associated with IT security than with physical
  safety.
• Fire Safety Equipment
• Equip your home with smoke alarms and other
  tools that can help you gain precious seconds in
  a fire.
• Smoke Alarms
• If you have a fire, smoke alarms can cut nearly
  in half your risk of dying in a fire. Smoke
  alarms sense abnormal amounts of smoke or
  invisible combustion gases in the air. They can
  detect both Flaming fires and smoldering.

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• In new homes The National Fire Alarm Code
  requires hard-wired, interconnected smoke alarms
  with battery back-up on every level of the home,
  inside each bedroom and outside each sleeping
  area. Alarms must be wired together so that if
  one sounds, they all sound.
• In existing homes If smoke alarms are not
  already in place, at a minimum install them on
  every level of the home and outside each sleeping
  area. If a fire occurs inside a bedroom,
  dangerous gases can cause heavier sleep. For the
  best protection, install interconnected smoke
  alarms in each bedroom and throughout the home.
  When one sounds, they all sound.
• To prevent nuisance alarms, vacuum cobwebs and
  dust from your smoke alarms monthly. Never
  disable a smoke alarm, even if you experience
  nuisance alarms while cooking or showering.
  Instead, use the alarms hush button. If
  nuisance alarms are a persistent problem, look
  for a different type of smoke alarm and ensure
  they are installed in correct areas in the home.
• Use the test button to test your smoke alarms at
  least monthly. The test feature tests all
  electronic functions and is safer than testing
  with a controlled fire (matches, lighters,
  cigarettes).
• If the manufacturer's instructions permit the use
  of an aerosol smoke product for testing the smoke
  alarm, choose one that has been examined and
  tested by a third-party product testing
  laboratory, and use it in accordance with the
  product instructions.

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• If you have battery-powered smoke alarms, replace
  the batteries at least once a year. Some agencies
  recommend that you replace batteries when the
  time changes from standard to daylight savings
  each spring and then back again in the fall.
  Replacing batteries this often will not hurt, but
  fresh batteries typically last at least a year,
  so more frequent replacement is not necessary
  unless the smoke alarm begins to chirp.
• If your local area does not observe daylight
  savings time, pick an easy-to-remember
  anniversary, such as your birthday or a national
  holiday, as the day to change the batteries each
  year.
• Replace the batteries in your carbon monoxide
  (CO) alarms at the same time you replace your
  smoke alarm batteries.
• Replace your smoke alarms every 10 years. This is
  the recommendation of the National Fire
  Protection Association. Smoke alarms become less
  sensitive over time.
• Be sure to install smoke alarms in areas where
  pets are and in other buildings that house
  animals where humans can hear them.
• Fire Safety for Kids
• A home fire is a devastating event, and one that
  you never count on happening. Your children are
  most at risk when this disaster occurs. In fact,
  children under five are twice as likely as other
  people to die in a home fire. Tragically, many
  home fires are started by children playing with
  dangerous household items especially lighters
  and matches. Taking sensible precautions in the
  home and teaching your child how to escape from a
  fire can help your family avoid this type of
  heartbreak. 

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• Help Your Child Survive a Fire
• Install smoke alarms on every level of your home,
  inside bedrooms and outside sleeping areas. 
• Once a month check whether each alarm in the home
  is working properly by pushing the test button. 
• Replace batteries in smoke alarms at least once a
  year. Immediately install a new battery if an
  alarm chirps, warning the battery is low.
• Teach your children what smoke alarms sound like
  and what to do when they hear one.
• Ensure that all household members know two ways
  to escape from every room of your home, and where
  to meet up outside.
• Practice your fire escape plan at least twice a
  year and at different times of the day. Practice
  waking up to smoke alarms, low crawling and
  meeting outside.
• Only professional firefighters should enter a
  building that is on fireeven if other family
  members, pets or prized possessions are inside.
• Use quick-release devices on barred windows and
  doors. Security bars without release devices can
  trap you in a deadly fire. If you have security
  bars on your windows, be sure one window in each
  sleeping room has a release device.
• Consider getting escape ladders for sleeping
  areas on the second or third floor. Learn how to
  use them, and store them near the windows. 
• Teach household members to STOP, DROP and ROLL if
  their clothes should catch on fire.

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• Prevent Your Pets from Starting Fires
• Extinguish Open Flames - Pets are generally
  curious and will investigate cooking appliances,
  candles, or even a fire in your fireplace. Ensure
  your pet is not left unattended around an open
  flame and make sure to thoroughly extinguish any
  open flame before leaving your home.
• Remove Stove Knobs - Be sure to remove stove
  knobs or protect them with covers before leaving
  the house - a stove or cook top is the number one
  piece of equipment involved in your pet starting
  a fire.
• Invest in Flameless Candles - These candles
  contain a light bulb rather than an open flame,
  and take the danger out of your pet knocking over
  a candle. Cats are notorious for starting fires
  when their tails turn over lit candles.
• Secure Young Pets - keep them confined away from
  potential fire-starting hazards when you are away
  from home such as in crates or behind baby gates
  in secure areas.