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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
This weekend marks Daylight Savings time when we “fall back” an hour. A general rule of thumb is to replace the batteries in your smoke detectors when Daylight Savings Time ends and begins (unless you have a special detector –…
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Category: Home, Personal, Prevention, Technology
Tags: Daylight Savings Time, fire extinguishers, fire prevention, fire prevention tips, low battery, National Fire Protection Association, smoke alarm, smoke detector
I don’t know about you, but fall is my favorite season. The weather is perfect, the leaves turn beautiful colors, and it means the holidays are quickly approaching. The worst part about the autumn season is that it goes too…
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Category: Home, Personal, Prevention, Weather
Tags: air filter, cleaning gutters, exterior faucets, freezing pipes, freezing weather, heating system, salt, smoke alarm, smoke detector, snow shovel, winter preparation, winter weather, winterizing your home
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
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
Can you believe there was $5.5 BILLION in direct property damage in the US from 2012-2016? Whoa! And, can you believe October is almost over and November is nearing?! Well, it still is National Fire Prevention Month, so let’s learn…
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Category: Home, Household Inventory, Personal, Prevention
Tags: chimney, chimney fire, electrical hazards, electrical safety, fire, fire prevention, fire prevention tips, fireplace, heating system, home, home fire, home insurance, safety, smoke alarm, smoke detector
Now that fall is in full force and winter is slowly approaching, it is common to spend more time indoors. However, this actually influences the higher number of structural fires in the fall and winter. So, as these days become shorter and…
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Category: Home, Personal, Prevention, Risk Management
Tags: candles, extension cord, fire prevention, fireplace, NFPA, prevent fires, Safety Tips, smoke alarm, space heater, wood burning stove
The Benjamin Franklin proverb “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is as true today as it was when Franklin made the statement. This truism can be applied to many facets of life, including insurance! How, you might…
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Category: Central, Claims, Home, Loss Control, Personal, Prevention, Saving Money
Tags: burglar alarm, central station fire and burglar alarm system, essential circuit standby generator, loss prevention, non-electric back-up sump pump, premium discount, premium savings, protective devices, Safety Tips, security system, smoke alarm, sprinkler system, sump pump, water/lead sensor system, whole house generator
This probably isn’t the most original topic for a blog. My guess is there are more than a few blogs out there about smoke detectors. So why write one? First, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I…
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