Here’s a comprehensive home maintenance checklist that can help you stay on top of things as the spring season begins to wind down and the summer season is just around the corner!
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Category: Home, Household Inventory, Personal, Prevention
Tags: carbon monoxide, clean windows, cleaning gutters, drainage system, fire extinguisher, garbage disposal, home maintenance, home repairs, lawn, range hood, roof inspection, seasonal house maintenance, smoke detectors, trim trees, water leak
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
Have you ever wondered about some of the terms your insurance agent uses to describe the location of your insured property? What exactly goes into developing the insurance premiums that you pay? It’s not like you can see, touch, or taste…
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Category: Business, Central, Commercial, Loss Control, Prevention, Risk Management, Saving Money
Tags: central station alarm, fire extinguishers, fire pump, municipal fire protection system, PPC, public protection class, Public Protection Classification, public protection classification program, rating system, smoke detectors
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
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
We just had a beautiful weekend here. Saturday it was sunny and the temperature was near 70 degrees. Today, just two days later, it was 29 degrees when I got up to walk the dogs this morning. Winter is definitely on its way. …
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Category: Central, Home, Loss Control, Personal, Prevention
Tags: alternative heating sources, carbon monoxide, FEMA, fire, fire extinguisher, fireplace, furnace, heating fire, portable heater, Safety Tips, smoke detectors, space heater, wood stove