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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This is great. I’ve bookmarked it to get some of these. We have multiple fire code violations, I have called the fire marshall, the town manager’s office, this has gone on 3 years. 19 violations fixed, currently 70 outstanding, and there are 19 more not written up yet. It is very wearisome. If you live in a condo or apartment complex units joined to others, esp with stairwells, you really need to pay attention to fire risks and be prepared. Two people died in this complex from a fire, from the smoke, it is real, can happen in a house or complex.
I would like to get the two story ladder, actually three stories if possible because I live in a third floor condo and would need an escape option if I can’t get to the stairs in a fire
I would like to gift the X-Sense CO03JF Battery-Operated Home Carbon Monoxide Detector | CO Alarm with Electrochemical Gas Sensor; Large Digital Display, Built in Memory to my parents, because I don’t think they have a CO detector.
i would want the PET SAFETY ALERT 234001 2-Count Static Cling Window Decal for Pets because i have 4 cats who are like my babies and i would want them to be ok.
The Fire Escape Ladder! All of our bedrooms are on the 2nd floor and this worries me sometimes about how we would get out of the house.
I would like to get the Kidde KL-2S Two-Story Fire Escape Ladder with Anti-Slip Rungs because it looks very useful!
I’d like the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC!! It’s always a good idea to keep a fire extinguisher around! You just never know when you might need it.
I would get the escape mask because if we have a major fire I would want to get out as fast as I can.
I’d like to get the Kidde 21005779 Pro 210 Fire Extinguisher, ABC, 160CI since we don’t currently have a extinguisher. This would make me feel safer.
I would order the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC for our kitchen. We definitely need one.
I’d like to have the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher since we don’t have one on every level. Or the escape ladder because the kid’s bedrooms are on the second floor.
I would like get Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC, because it has ABC measures and it would be really userful in any case of emergency
i would love the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC.Its better to be safe than sorry and i feel everyone needs one of these in their house