Be Fire Smart!
Fire Safety Guide for your home and family

Decrease your fire risk and increase your safety by following these tips.

6 Steps to take now!

1. Create a family fire escape plan – include exit strategies for each room and choose and outside landmark as a safe meeting place for your family members. Practice your escape plan!
2. Learn how to extinguish cooking fires – different cooking fires require different responses. Smother grease fires, keep the door closed on oven & microwave fires, use extinguishers for appliances, linens or electrical outlets.
3. Turn off appliances before leaving the house - on your way out and before bed, always do a “spot” check of kitchen appliances, hair dryers, curling irons, entertainment electronics and electrical tools.
4. Protect critical documents – store documents in a fireproof safe or in a safety deposit box away from home (include certificates, passports, deeds, legal documents, home inventory lists, videos or photos, insurance policies, computer backups, etc.)
5. Keep emergency numbers handy – program emergency and insurance claims numbers into home and cell phones.
6. Properly place and maintain smoke detectors – place detectors on all levels of your home, replace batteries twice a year when you change your clocks for Daylight Saving Time, test alarms monthly.

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