By Admin on
August 28th, 2008
Install smoke alarms on every level of your home and outside every sleeping area. Test them monthly, if your smoke alarms are 10 years old or more replace them. If you build or remodel your home, install fire sprinklers.- Develop a fire escape plan for your family: Point out two exits from each room, pick a meeting spot outside, and hold a fire drill at least twice a year.
- Always stay in the kitchen while food is cooking on the stove.
- Keep all stairways, paths, and walkways well lit. Use railings.
- Install grab bars in bath and showing stalls, and use a non-slip mat or adhesive safety strips inside bathtubs and shower.
- Post the National Poison Control Hotline number and other emergency numbers next to every phone in your home.
- Install child locks on all cabinets used to store dangerous items such as poison, matches, and lighters. Install carbon monoxide alarms.
- Keep your water heater setting at 120o F or less.
- Install four-sided pool fencing with self-locking and self-closing gates. Fencing should completely isolate the pool from the home and be at least five feet high.
- Constantly supervise children in or near bodies of water such as pools, ponds, bathtubs, toilets, and buckets.
Categories: family and home
Tip #1 is right on the money, fire sprinklers save lives and thats a fact! http://www.novafp.com
Nice tips and advices
These tips are great. For #3, not too long ago I read this news about a guy who lost his house because he went to lay down on the couch while heating up his breakfast. He fell asleep only to be awaken by all the fire around him.
How have you been?