Daylight savings time is coming up this Sunday! We’re going to “SPRING forward” our clocks (which means Spring is just around the corner. Yay!). Another important thing to do this weekend: check our smoke detectors!
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Category: Home, Household Inventory, Personal, Prevention
Tags: battery, daylight savings, Daylight Savings Time, fire, fire prevention, fire prevention tips, fire protection, fire safety, home fire, house fire, National Fire Protection Association, smoke alarm, smoke detector, smoke detectors
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
Have you ever seen the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Kindergarten Cop? In a scene near the end of the movie, a school is being evacuated because of a fire. Although the fire is contained in a small area of the building, the sprinklers…
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Category: Business, Commercial, Loss Control, Prevention, Risk Management
Tags: deflector, deluge system, dry pipe, fire prevention, fire protection, sprinkler head, sprinkler system, water supply system, wet pipe
Where do you feel safest from the threat of a fire? At home? You’re not alone. A 2008 nationwide survey by the Society of Fire Protection Engineers showed that 79% of Americans feel safer from fire at home than in…
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Category: Central, Home, Personal, Prevention
Tags: emergency exits, fire alarms, fire deaths, fire evacuation plan, fire extinguishers, fire protection, Safety Tips, smoke detectors, sprinklers