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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amazon.com/Fire-Gone-Pack-Brackets-oz/dp/B004PHDWMM/ref=sr_1_16?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1447977137&sr=1-16&keywords=fire+safety Looks easy to use.
I would like to have the Fire Gone product for my household and my son and daughter’s households. Looks like a product that would really come in handy in case of a fire.
The Emergency Escape Hood Oxygen Mask Respirator looks very useful!
I would get the 2 story ladder since our house is 2 stories & all the bedrooms are upstairs.
Easy! I would get the second-story ladders for each room in my house as they are on the second story!
I would like to get a small fire extinquisher and keep in kitchen.
I would get the Kidde KL-2S Two-Story Fire Escape Ladder with Anti-Slip Rungs, 13-Foot so my family could get out of our windows safely.
I’d go with a Sentry Safe Waterproof Fire-Resistant File!
I like to give the Fire Extinguisher to help someone prevent fires
I would like to get the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC. I never had a fire extinguisher and it would be nice in case of emergencies.
I’d like to get the Fire Extinguisher because we just used our old one and need a replacement. I’m glad we practiced and pretended to use it when we bought it.
I would get the fire extinguisher. It is always a smart idea to have one of these in the kitchen.
I’d give my sister-in-law the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher…because I don’t think they have one, and should have one in their kitchen!
I would like this
Fire Gone 2 Pack with Brackets – 16 oz.
to teach my kids how to use this incase of a
greese fire
I’d like to get the First Alert EL52-2 Two-Story 14-Foot Escape Ladder because our bedrooms are on the second floor.
I would love the First Alert EL52-2 Two-Story 14-Foot Escape Ladder because im in a flood zone and live in a one story house so this would be great to be able to get onto the roof with.
I would get the Fire Extinguisher to prevent a fire from spreading.
A family of 5 (plus one large dog) in our neighborhood just lost their house and all their belongings to fire. I really appreciate the information you provided in your blog. I hadn’t heard of the fire blanket before. The escape mask is an excellent idea, too.
I would like to get a couple of the fire safety blankets to have around the house just in case. I did not know that there was such a thing. I also need to replace our fire extinguishers as I am sure that they have expired because I have not checked them in a long time.
I would get the fire blanket because You never know when you need it