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
I’ve written about stovetop fire extinguishers before, but I also want to share some general stovetop and oven safety tips with you. Since I’ve been working from home, I’m cooking a lot more and using my stovetop and/or oven daily,…
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Category: Home, Personal, Prevention, Risk Management
Tags: cooking fire, fire extinguisher, fire safety, grease fire, knife, knife safety, knives, oven, oven safety, safe cooking, stovetop, stovetop fire, stovetop safety
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