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 think the emergency escape hood oxygen mask would be a smart thing to have around the house.
There are a number of things that I would like:
Vktech Fire Blanket Emergency Survival Fire Shelter Safety Blanket Gear (I for each member if the family}
Kidde KL-2S Two-Story Fire Escape Ladder with Anti-Slip Rungs, 13-Foot
PET SAFETY ALERT 234001 2-Count Static Cling Window Decal for Pets
I would like the Fire Gone 2NBFG2704 White/Red Fire Extinguisher – 16 oz., (Pack of 2). They have great reviews.
My son would like the Sentry Safe Fire Safe to store important papers.
I would choose the Kidde KL-2S Two-Story Fire Escape Ladder with Anti-Slip Rungs, 13-Foot as we don’t have an escape ladder
I’d get a Kidde KN-COSM-BA coz of the voice alarm
I’d like to get the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC for my home. We do not currently have a fire extinguisher.
I would get the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher since I could really use one and I believe my daughters could too.
I could see the Night Light being useful for myself. I have a smoke alarm in my apt. and I know it works b/c sometimes it goes off when I’m cooking :-/.
I would love to get a seatbelt cutter to keep in the car, just in case!
I would like to have the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC because we have had a small fire before in our kitchen and although we we were able to get out, we would have not called the fire department if we had a fire extinguisher.
The emergency escape mask would be ideal for getting out faster and safer. Great idea for the whole family!
I would love to have the two story fire escape ladder. we sleep upstairs so this would give me peace of mind we could escape out the window in case of a fire.
I need the Kidde 21005779 pro 210 fire extinguisher in my kitchen. We don’t currently have an extinguisher in our kitchen area and that’s probably the most likely place we would have a small fire in our home. A friend of ours had a kitchen fire just last month.
Honestly, you cannot go wrong with a fire extinguisher, so the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC would be my top choice!!
I would like to get the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC because I don’t have one!
I would love to get the Kidde KN-COSM-BA Battery-Operated Combination Smoke/Carbon Monoxide Alarm with Voice Warning in order to alert us if there is a fire in our home.
We definitely want to get the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC as soon as possible because we don’t have any fire extinguishers in our house at all!
Fire Gone 2NBFG2704 White/Red Fire Extinguisher – 16 oz., (Pack of 2) because we need a new one as ours is old. These are always good to have.
I need a Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher, I think I would fit slightly safer if I had at least 2.