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When your smoke alarm sounds do you know what to do?  Do your children know what to do? For Fire Prevention Week 2010 the National Fire Protection Association has created 2 really nice placements or posters for young children to learn and practice escape plans.  There is a poster for boys and a poster for girls .  The steps are easy to learn and great to practice with your kids! The smoke detector sounds.  Even if you don't see smoke go outside Go to your meeting place.  This is a safe location you can choose outside.  Have your children help you pick your meeting place. Wait at your meeting place for your family to join you. That's it!  Easy Peasy.  But Fire Prevention Week isn't the only time of year for practicing Home Escape Plans.  Practice them several times a year with your children so that they know what to do in an emergency.

This year's Fire Prevention Week Theme is "Smoke Alarms:  a sound you can live with".  This is an important reminder on what we need to do, and teach our children to do, when the smoke alarm goes off. Does your home have working smoke detectors?  Have you checked them regularly? Do your children know what to do if the alarm goes off? Do you have a Fire Drill or Fire Safety plan at your workplace? These are all important things to do and practice.  To help you out with these the National Fire Protection Association has a very good website with tips, tools and information you can download to help you with your Fire Safety plan. Today I'm going to provide you with this link to a fun Smoke Detector Inspection Checklist you can use at your home.  As you test your smoke detectors, involve your children.  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=c01d6-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=bpl&amp;asins=B0013OW9RE&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS...

One of the taglines I miss this time of year is "Change your clocks, change your batteries". Now that the change from daylight savings time has moved it doesn't coincide with Fire Prevention Week . This year we will return to Standard Time on November 1st. Fire Prevention week has just ended, but have you checked your smoke detector batteries? Have you tested your smoke detector? This is a good time to do so. In many parts of the U.S. and Canada the weather is really getting colder, we are turning on our heat or using our fireplace or wood fired stoves. A working smoke detector and working carbon monoxide detector are important to have. Unfortunately I know this first hand, we almost had a fire last winter. Fortunately I smelled the smoke, but discovered that we had malfunctioning smoke detectors in our basement. In my brief smoke detector research this morning I found this neat website will all sorts of Fire Facts, in fact it is www.firefacts.org . The site h...

October 4-10, 2009 is Fire Prevention Week. This year’s theme is “Stay Fire Smart, Don’t Get Burned”. The focus is on fire safety and burn prevention. Burns are painful and easily avoided if we all follow some basic safety guidelines. Burn prevention is simple, but yet we all probably don’t think of these simple safety guidelines: Keep hot things away from the edge of the table or counter. It is tempting for young children to try to grab things just on the edge of their reach. It is also easier for us grown ups to bump or knock over things that are too close to the edge. Keep young children away from hot appliances; this includes stoves and ovens, but also curling irons, hair dryers, irons and heaters. Don’t use or leave hot heating pads in a child’s reach. Keep your hot water heater thermostat set no higher than 120 degrees. Extremely hot water can scald young children and older adults very easily. Don’t rely on thermometers to check water temperature when bathing yo...