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)
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I would get the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC, as I could use another extinguisher.
I would get the Emergency Escape Hood Oxygen Mask Respirator for Industrial and Urban Survival, I didn’t know they even made such a thing, that would be a great item to have available in case of a fire and it isn’t all that expensive either.
I’d really like to have the Seatbelt cutter Window Breaker tool. I’d keep it in my car in case we were ever in an emergency!
i would like to get the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC because we do not have one yet.
I want the fire blanket– I could run out of the house so easy if I was stuck inside while it was burning!!
I would love to give the ladder to my sister in law for my nephews
I like the Hot Headz Fire Blanket, 36 x 36-Inch, Red because it would be an easy way to put out a small fire.
I would like to give and get a fire extinguisher because you can never have too many of them, I would put one in each room and the garage
The window breaker would be great if you were stuck up against hot windows!
I would get a new fire extinguisher. The one we have now is expired.
For some reason, I’ve been thinking a lot about this very subject lately and thinking I should get a fire extinguisher and something to put by my bed so I could break the window to get out if necessary. But most importantly, I need the PET SAFETY ALERT 234001 2-Count Static Cling Window Decal so the firefighters can save my doggies!!
We need an escape ladder for our boys bedroom
I’d go with a Sentry Safe CFW20201 Waterproof Fire-Resistant File, you can never be too safe.
When our children were young, we had this all covered. Now I don’t even have a working fire extinguisher anymore. I think first off, I would like for each of my family to have the large multi purpose fire extinguisher for their kitchen. And don’t forget to teach your children how to get out and where to meet, also
I would get afire extinguisher, I don’t have one anymore
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I am in SE Louisiana where we have canals, bayous, huge ditches, and rivers. I see on the news how people get stuck inside their vehicles and drown and it is a small fear of mine. Better to have one and not need it than to need it and not have it.
I would like the fire escape because we have several floors and the escape mask seems like a great idea to be able to breathe while escaping the fire
I would choose the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC. Our fire extinguisher is expired.
Seatbelt cutter!
Very interesting!