Fire Safety: Presentation Offered By True Watch:

Fire safety: presentation offered by True Watch:

Went to a presentation on fire safety and took some notes. Hope this will be of some interest.

Most popular spot for a fire to occur is in the kitchen. The bathroom is the least likely.
If you are on fire, stop, drop and roll.
Fires that occur during the night is when people are the most vulnerable.
Recommend you have a fire drill to teach your family. Have it on a schedule.
You have 88% greater chance of dying at home from fire then at work or at school.
If you go back into a burning house you become a statistic. You usually won’t come out.
Law of diminishing intent: if you don’t do it now (having your family practice a fire drill or buy the necessary equipment to save your home) you usually won’t do it.
Children’s under age of 5 or the elderly are the most likely to die. This is due to lack of mobility, etc.
Misconceptions: 1. People think it will never happen to them.
Each household will experience 3 fires each decade. Two fires in our lives that we will need to call the fire department.
Anything plugged in or can generate heat can start a fire.
Salt or baking soda can be thrown on grease, NOT FLOUR. Also, have a fire extinguisher in the kitchen.
Every 6 mo. you should clean the back coils of your fridge and clean of the lint.
The furnace room is the second most common location for burning.
The third most popular place is the laundry room. Clean the vent tube. Have an aluminum vent tube. If you have a Samsung washer is a time bomb.
Fourth most popular is the Bedroom. Kids will start fires in their bedroom. There’s also plugs of electronics.
You should have smoke detectors in each bedroom. New buildings require a fire extinguisher for each level.
Fifth spot is the family room. Common threats are Christmas trees, fireplaces, entertainment center (dust and wires)
Sixth common spot is the garage, often due to paint, mowers, lanterns. Fires get big really fast
The seventh is the attic.
The bathrooms the least possible location of fire in a home.
It takes 2-4 min for a room to burn. The More electronics that are present, the more the danger. Things are made of plastic synthetics and so are more combustible.
The killers of fires: suffocation from smoke, Super-heated air and smoke inhalation.
If you hear an alarm, don’t stand. Roll out of bed
Toxic gasses come from carpet and insulations. Toxins fumes are heavier than air. So don’t crawl along the floor but keep above below the smoke. Maybe door knob level. Test air is about door knob sight.
Most store bought carbon monoxide alarms lasts 2 years.
The average day in burn limits for non-3^rd degree costs $10K a day.
Suicide rate of burn victims is very high.
Flashover is when a fire in the corner makes the room hotter and then suddenly all object in the room will combust.
Never buy toys from the dollar store: the cheap smoke detectors
Smoke detectors only detect small particles. They come from white smoke with very small particles. Homes fires burn black and have large particles which the regular smoke detector does not detect very well.
Alarms should all be metal so they don’t melt.
You should not be able to move the gage.
Fire extinguishers you want to get are the ones that have ABC the label It means it will work on all types of fire.
Fire extinguishers have a shelf life 5-10 yrs. Shake it for every 6 months. (maybe do it each conference weekend.
Should have extinguishers in multiple locations throughout the house. Have one in the bedroom.
Sources: national fire protection associations, us fire administration, FEMA, university research, national disaster education coalition.
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