Top Fire Safety Tips and Fire Prevention Gifts
Protect against the dangers of a house fire:
- DO keep a smoke alarm on every level of your home. Half of home fire deaths happen between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Stay safe with smoke alarms outside of every bedroom and each separate sleeping area.
- DON’T forget to test your smoke alarm every month. The risk of dying in a home fire is cut in half in homes with working smoke alarms. If your alarm doesn’t sound when tested, it’s time to replace it.
- DO address your needs. If you require eyeglasses, hearing aid, cane or a wheelchair, ensure they are next to your bed to quickly grab if necessary. If there is a fire, you may have less than three minutes to get out of your home. Be ready to act immediately.
- DON’T assume you’ll hear the fire alarm if it sounds. If you test the alarm and can’t hear it, consider getting a strobe light that will flash or a bed shaker that will shake when the smoke alarm sounds.
- DO make a fire escape plan that shows at least two ways out of every room. Identify a meeting place in the front of your home, to verify that everyone is safe and help firefighters ensure everyone exited safely.
- DON’T stop to call 911 until you’re safely outside and away from danger. Stay outside until the fire department says it’s safe to go back inside.
For even more fire safety tips, visit the U.S. Fire Administration’s webpage at www.usfa.fema.gov. You can also follow FEMA Region V at twitter.com/femaregion5 and www.facebook.com/fema. Individuals can always find valuable preparedness information at www.Ready.gov.
Top Fire Safety Prevention Gifts
This holiday buy your family/friends fire prevention gifts!
- : X-Sense SD03A Battery-Powered Home Smoke Detector, with 85 dB Fire Alarm Warning and Photoelectric Sensor; Automatic Reset, Easy Installation; in White Color ($16)
- : Fire Lite P2R Horn/Strobe, 12/24 Volt, Red, Multi-Candela 15,15/75, 30, 75,110,115 cd ($50)
- : Kidde KL-2S Two-Story Fire Escape Ladder with Anti-Slip Rungs, 13-Foot ($28)
- : Emergency Escape Mask – Breath-Of-Life — URBAN SURVIVAL / FIRE / CHEMICAL / DUST / BIOLOGICALS ($44)
- : Fire Gone 2NBFG2704 White/Red Fire Extinguisher – 16 oz., (Pack of 2) ($16)
Update: This Fire Prevention Tips post originally had a $50 Paypal cash giveaway attached. The Giveaway entry device has been removed and had 9522 entries. See Giveaway Winners
First Alert EL52-2 Two-Story 14-Foot Escape Ladder.. it would be handy.
Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC for the kitchen
Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC
Being (somewhat) new home owners we would love to have the fire escape ladder!
that extinguisher because it looks way easier to handle than old ones
would love to win
I would really like to add monitored smoke detectors to my existing security system.
The Kidde Fire Extinguiser.
PET SAFETY ALERT 234001 2-Count Static Cling Window Decal for Pets it would save pet lives.
I would love this! I would want Lois, my kitty, to be saved. Pets are family…
I would like a combination smoke and carbon monoxide detector. Saw an article in our paper about two children who almost died from a faulty furnace spewing carbon monoxide.
I’d like the First Escape Two Story Ladder. We have a 2 story house but no exits in case of a fire. This would be something really nice to have just in case
I would want the Kidde KL-2S Two-Story Fire Escape Ladder with Anti-Slip Rungs, 13-Foot, because everyone needs to have a safe way to exit from the windows if there is no other way out of the house.
Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC would be nice.
I love the Kidde KN-COSM-BA Battery-Operated Combination Smoke/Carbon Monoxide Alarm with Voice Warning because it has a voice warning and a carbon monoxide alarm!
I would give nice, new fire alarms, who several people I know do not have.
I would get both the ladder thing – I always think about that..I couldn’t just jump out of a window if the building was on fire!! 🙂 and the pet safety window decals.
I couldn’t bare to think of my cat dying in a fire 🙁 that would be horrible!!
I love the idea of the pet safety decals. Thanks!
I’d like to have and give both the Fire Gone 2NBFG2704 Red/White Fire Extinguisher and the Kidde KL-2S Two Story Fire Escape Ladder.
Forgot to say Why I would like these products. 1st one, of course is so we could hopefully put out a fire before it became a big fire. The 2nd item is good to have in case someone would have to leave out of one of the back bedroom windows. It is not that high but my mom is older, just had foot surgery and jumping is not the best option.
I would like the Kidde KL-2S Two-Story Fire Escape Ladder with Anti-Slip Rungs, 13-Foot because we don’t have one.