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“Burn, baby, burn” may have packed the dance floor during the days of disco, but those words are anything but a good time when it comes to your home and property. Since 1922, the National Fire Protection Agency has sponsored…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Home, Personal, Prevention
Tags: commercial insurance, cooking fires, Fire escape plan, Fire Prevention Week, fire safety, heating fires, home fire, National Fire Protection Association, personal insurance, smoke alarm
Fall is in full force and winter is slowly approaching. People are lighting pumpkin spice candles, turning on the heat, and decorating for the upcoming holidays (I’m guilty on all accounts). And with the colder temperatures, people will be staying…
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Category: Home, Personal, Prevention
Tags: candle safety, candles, cooking fires, electrical fires, electrical outlets, fall, fire, fire alarms, fire extinguisher, fire hazard, fire prevention, fire prevention tips, Fire Prevention Week, fire protection equipment, fire safety, fireplace, heating fires, smoke alarm, winter
Spring is here and summer is coming. As a suburban dad, this means I only have two things on my mind: lawn maintenance and barbeque. Nothing ruins a good cookout faster than a trip to the emergency room or a…
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Category: Home, Loss Control, Personal, Prevention, Risk Management
Tags: cooker, cooking fire, cooking fires, fire, fire safety, grease fire, grill, grilling, grilling safety, home, outdoor cooking, safety, Safety Tips
Thanksgiving is a week away and I am already imagining the deliciousness. My mouth is literally starting to water as I type this! Mmm. There are many ways to cook your holiday turkey, such as roasting it, slow cooking it…
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Category: Home, Personal, Prevention, Risk Management
Tags: cooking fire, cooking fires, fire, fire extinguisher, fire protection, fire safety, holiday safety, National Fire Protection Association, outdoor cooking, Safety Tips, turkey
Now that fall is in full force and winter is slowly approaching (even though it is over 80 degrees here in Ohio on this first day of October), it will be soon that people will be spending more time indoors….
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Category: Home, Household Inventory, Personal, Prevention, Risk Management
Tags: candle safety, candles, cooking fires, electrical fires, electrical safety, fire, fire prevention, fire prevention tips, fire safety, fireplace, house fire, National Fire Protection Association, Safety Tips, space heater
Cooking fires are the number one causes of both house fires and fire-related injuries. Unattended cooking accounts for nearly 90 percent of these fires.
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Category: Central, Home, Personal, Prevention
Tags: cooking fires, cooking oil fire, fire extinguisher, fire injuries, grease fire, house fire, kitchen fires, kitchen oil fire, Safety Tips
The lead story on today’s local evening news covered another in a recent string of apartment fires in the San Antonio, Texas area. As I listened to interviews with apartment residents whose lives had been impacted in a sudden, terrible…
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Category: Central, Home, Personal, Prevention
Tags: apartment fire, arson, confined fire, cooking fires, fire, fire extinguisher, grease fire, homeowners insurance, kitchen fire, National Fire Protection Association, renters insurance, Safety Tips, smoke detectors, stove, structure fire, unconfined fire