Home fire safety is up to YOU!

Important Fire Safety Tips!

  • Have a home fire escape plan and practice your plan!  Everyone should know two ways out of every room in the house.  The family should have a designated meeting place.  Once outside, everyone stays out!  Call 911 from a neighbor’s house and wait for the fire department to arrive.
  • Check your smoke detectors!  Your home should have a smoke detector on every level of your house and ideally, outside of all bedrooms.  Non-lithium batteries should be changed every six months.  Remember the phrase, “change your clocks, change your batteries.”
  • Cooking fires are the number one cause of fires in the home.  Always turn off the stove or oven when you step away to do other chores.  Keep a pot holder and lid handy.  Turn pot handles in so that kids and pets can’t bump up against the handle or tip the pot over.
  • Discarded or dropped cigarettes can also lead to a house fire.  Never smoke in bed or while drowsy.  Cigarettes should be extinguished in ashtrays and the ashtray should only be emptied when all ashes are cold.
  • Space heaters need space!  All space heaters should have a minimum of 3 feet of clearance on all sides – that means that nothing that can burn should be placed in that 3 foot zone!
  • When cleaning out fireplace ashes, place them only in metal buckets or containers.  Hot ashes can smolder and ignite plastic or paper bags or can melt through non-metal buckets.

For more information on home fire safety, please visit some of these websites:

Safety in the home : Home escape planning

Brochures and Tips for Home Fire Safety

Home Fire Safety