1. Sugar Grove Fire Department For United Airlines
Household Safety
Sugar Grove Fire Department
For United Airlines

2. The Facts
These facts cannot be challenged and are representative of what the fire service faces annually concerning children and fire: · Average death annually by fire: 4500, children account for 1000 deaths · Average injury annually by fire: 26,500 · 84% of all fatalities from fire occur in the home · Senior citizens and children under 5 years of age are at the greatest risk · Fire death rate for seniors and those under five are double that of the relative average population ·

3. The Facts
19 years and younger account for 25% of the annual deaths in the US · 13% of the fire fatalities occurs to children 5 years of age and younger · From 1971 to 1991 there was a 50% decline in fire / burn related deaths, this can be contributed to public fire education, codes and standards, sprinklers, and smoke detector alarms.

4. Sprinkler Facts Sprinklers save lives.
Sprinklers are the most effective fire safety device ever invented.  Look at this comparison with smoke alarms and with no fire protection at all. The National Fire Protection Association reports that people with smoke alarms in their home have a 50 percent better chance of surviving a fire. Adding sprinklers and smoke alarms increases your chances of surviving a fire by over 97 percent.
Sprinklers save property.
Residential fire sprinklers are designed to save lives, but because they control fires so quickly, they also reduce property damage. Fire reports show that property damage is nine times lower in sprinklered homes.

6. Sprinkler Facts Sprinklers are affordable.
Fire sprinklers add about one percent or less to the cost of a new home. This is about the same cost as upgrading carpeting. But carpets need to be replaced every ten years, while fire sprinklers last for the life of the home. Compared with the cost of carpeting, fire sprinklers give you peace of mind for a bargain price. Multipurpose systems that serve the sprinklers and plumbing with the same pipe may lower the cost even more.
Lifetime safety is lifetime quality.
The features of your home reflect your values and priorities. You select high-quality items for things that you want to last. Fire safety is a quality issue, too. Fire sprinklers will protect your family for the life of the home. You can ignore the issue and accept the minimum level of safety for your family and possessions, or you can build in quality fire protection for them.

8. The Facts
A home fire is reported to a fire department in the United States roughly every 1-1/2 minutes.
someone in the United States dies in a home fire roughly every 2-1/2 hours.
Three in every 10 reported home fires start in the kitchen – more than any other place in the home.
Cooking fires are the number one cause of home fires and home fire injuries in the United States.

9. The Facts
Cigarettes and other smoking materials are the number one cause of home fire deaths in the United States. Nearly 750 people are killed each year in this country.
Nearly half of fatal U.S. home smoking fires start in upholstered furniture.  Non-smokers can help smokers make sure ashes, embers and butts do not fall in or on couches and chairs, and that ashes and butts are doused with water before being thrown away.
Do you dispose of smoking materials carefully (not in waste baskets) and keep large, safe ashtrays wherever people smoke?

10. E.D.I.T.H
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11. Exit Drills In The Home E.D.I.T.H. When do most home fires start?
Between the hours of midnight and 6:00 a.m., just when you are asleep - and least prepared!
Where do most home fires start?
In this order kitchen, living room, basement, bedrooms, all others. This means that most fires start just where they are likely to block your usual escape (from bedrooms).

12. Exit Drills In The Home Fire Escape Planning
Draw a floor plan of your ground or upper floor bedrooms with two escape routes from each room.
Step 1 (Basic Floor Layout): To get you started, select a floor plan from the list on the right that is most like your home and print it out; or draw your own floor plan by following these guidelines:
a.       Make an outline of your entire floor area: dimensions and details need not be exact.
b.       Now add each bedroom and label it.
c.       Locate windows, doors and stairways. If any upper floor, shade in any rooftops that could be used as a fire escape.

13. Exit Drills In The Home Step 2 (Room Inspection):
a.       Go to each bedroom and select the best window for an emergency escape.
b.       Test the windows or screens to see that they work easily and are large and low enough to use.
Step 3 (Complete "Escape Plan"):
a.       Black arrows show normal exit through hall or stairways.
b.       Red arrows show emergency exit in case fire blocks hallways or stairs.

14. Exit Drills In The Home

15. Exit Drills In The Home Family Instructions
Gather your family together for a short explanation of the vital nighttime fire escape procedures.
Point 1 Always sleep with bedroom or hall door closed. It can keep out fire long enough to allow escape through your emergency escape route (usually a window.) If you are trapped, close the doors between you and the fire. Stuff the cracks around the doors to keep smoke out. Wait at a window and signal for help with light-colored cloth or a flashlight. If there’s a phone in the room, call the fire department and tell them exactly where you are.
Point 2
Make certain that a smoke detector is installed and operating properly in the hallway outside bedrooms. Fire safety officials are now recommending the placement of smoke detectors inside bedrooms where the door is kept closed at night. This is to protect against the advent of fire starting inside the bedroom.

16. Exit Drills In The Home
Point 3 Don't waste time getting dressed or gathering valuables. Precious seconds can count in a fire.
Point 4 Test the door before opening. Intense heat and deadly smoke can be on the other side.
Point 5 Have an outside meeting place to quickly check if everyone is safe. Once out - STAY OUT!
Point 6 Plan to use a neighbor's phone to dial 911.

17. Exit Drills In The Home Practice Makes Perfect
Conducting Your Fire Escape Drill
1.       Everyone is in his/her bedroom (doors closed).
2.       Test your smoke detector to sound the alarm.
3.       Everyone swings into action - out of bed, to the door.
4.       Carefully test door before opening.
First Drill: Escape through normal exit (hall or stairway).
Second Drill: Imagine doors are hot and the hall is blocked by fire. Now everyone must test his emergency escape exit. Depending on age and capability, you need not actually go out on the roof, but be sure everyone can open windows, screens easily, and position emergency escape ladder quickly, etc.

18. Exit Drills In The Home
Install and maintain smoke alarms. Install them on every level of your home and outside of each sleeping area. Test them at least once a month and replace batteries in accordance with manufacturing requirements or whenever an alarm begins to chirp, which signals the battery is low.
Since November 2002, reports have been pouring in from various media outlets across the country about the newly discovered phenomenon of children sleeping through activated fire alarms. Research is showing that this occurs due to unfamiliarity with the sound of an activated smoke alarm.

19. Fire Safety Checklist Are you aware of the safety hazards around you?
If you so, are you doing something to prevent those fire risks?
The following slides contain a checklist of fire hazards that can be around you in your house. Once you have gone through our list, see can you find other hazards that we've missed...go ahead we dare you to!

20. Fire Safety Checklist
Are fuel-burning space heaters and appliances properly installed and used? Never leave heaters on when you leave home or go to bed and keep children and pets well away from them
Are all space heaters placed away from traffic? Are children and elderly persons cautioned to keep their clothing away?
Has the family been cautioned not to use flammable liquids, like gasoline, to start or freshen a fire (or for cleaning purposes)?
Is the fireplace equipped with a metal fire screen or heat-tempered glass doors?
Since portable gas and oil heaters in fireplaces use up oxygen as they burn, do you provide proper ventilation when they are in use?
Are proper clearances provided between space heaters and curtains, bedding, furniture, etc? Keep portable and space heaters at 3 feet (1 meter) from anything that can burn.

21. Fire Safety Checklist
Do you know you should give matches or lighters to an adult if you find them? What about your younger brother or sister?
Are matches and lighters kept away from small children?
Children get burned climbing on the stove to reach an item overhead. Do you store cookies, cereal, or other “bait” away from the stove?

22. Fire Safety Checklist
Do you keep your basement closets, garage, and yard, clear of combustibles like papers, cartons, old furniture, or old rags?
Are gasoline and other flammable liquids stored in safety cans (never glass jugs, discarded bleach bottles, or other makeshift containers) and away from heat, sparks, and children?
Is paint kept in tightly-closed metal containers?

23. Fire Safety Checklist
Are furnace, stove, and smoke pipes far enough from combustible walls and ceilings, and in good repair?
Is your heating equipment checked yearly by a serviceman?
Is the chimney cleaned and checked regularly?
For safety against chimney and other sparks, is the roof covering fire retardant?
Did you have a qualified electrician install or extend your wiring?
Do all your appliances carry the seal of a testing laboratory?

24. Fire Safety Tips
Crawl low under smoke. Smoke is dangerous! If you encounter smoke, use an alternate escape route. If you must exit through smoke, the cleanest air will be several inches off the floor. Crawl on your hands and knees to the nearest safe exit.

25. Fire Safety Tips
Stop, Drop and Roll. Everyone should know this rule: If your clothes catch on fire, don’t run! Stop where you are, drop to the ground, cover your face with your hands to protect your face and lungs, and roll over and over to smother the flames.

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Fire Safety Tips

27. Fire Safety Tips Be Careful Cooking. Never leave cooking unattended.
Keep cooking areas clear of combustibles and wear short or tight-fitting sleeves when you cook.
Keep the handles of your pots turned inward so the pots can't be knocked or pulled over.
If grease catches fire, carefully slide a lid over the pan to smother the flames, then turn off the burner.
Never put foil or other metals in a microwave oven.

28. Fire Safety Tips Use electricity safely.
If an appliance smokes or has an unusual smell, unplug it immediately and have it repaired.
Replace any electrical cord that is cracked or frayed.
Don't overload extension cords or run them under rugs.
Don't tamper with the fuse box or use fuses of an improper size.
Are there enough electrical outlets in every room and special circuits for heavy-duty appliances such as space heaters and air conditioners?

29. Fire Safety Tips
Cool a burn. If someone gets burned, immediately place the wound in cool water for 10 to 15 minutes. If the burn blisters or chars, see a doctor immediately

30. Fire Safety Tips Candle Safety Facts and Figures*
Candle fires reached a 19-year high of 12,540 in 1998, resulting in 157 deaths, 1,106 civilian injuries and $176.1 million in property damage.
Unattended, abandoned or inadequately controlled candles are the leading cause of home candle fires (37%), followed by leaving candles too close to combustibles (19%), according to annual averages from Nine percent were started by children playing with candles.
December is the peak month for candle fires, with nearly twice the average number of incidents. Almost half (44%) of home candle fires start in the bedroom.

31. Fire Safety Tips Safety Tips:
Extinguish all candles when leaving the room or going to sleep.
Keep candles away from items that can catch fire.
Use candle holders that are sturdy, won't tip over easily, are made from a material that can't burn and are large enough to collect dripping wax.
Don't place lit candles in windows, where blinds and curtains can close over them.
Place candle holders on a sturdy, uncluttered surface and do not use candles in places where they could be knocked over by children or pets.
Keep candles and all open flames away from flammable liquids.
Keep candle wicks trimmed to one-quarter inch and extinguish taper and pillar candles when they get to within two inches of the holder or decorative material. Votives and containers should be extinguished before the last half-inch of wax starts to melt.
Avoid candles with combustible items embedded in them.

32. Fire Safety Tips Candles & children:
Keep candles up high out of reach of children.
Never leave a child unattended in a room with a candle. A child should not sleep in a room with a lit candle.
Don't allow children or teens to have candles in their bedrooms.
Store candles, matches and lighters up high and out children's sight and reach, preferably in a locked cabinet.

33. Fire Safety Tips Christmas Trees Facts & Figures
In 1998, Christmas trees were the first item ignited in 300 home fires, resulting in 11 injuries and $8.4 million in direct property damage.
The leading cause of Christmas tree fires and property damage was short circuit or ground fault. In this category, electrical failure other than short circuit ranked second in number of fires, injuries and property damage with the exception of the "other known" category.
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Unspecified short circuit arc accounted for an estimated 100 fires per year (23%), no civilian deaths, 14 civilian injuries, and $3.3 million in direct property damage from

34. Fire Safety Tips Safety Tips
When decorating Christmas trees, always use safe tree lights. (Some lights are designed only for indoor or outdoor use, but not both.) Larger tree lights should also have some type of reflector rather than a bare bulb and all lights should be listed by a testing laboratory.
Never use electric lights on a metal tree.
Follow the manufacturer's instructions on how to use tree lights.  Any string of lights with worn, frayed or broken cords or loose bulb connections should not be used.
Always unplug Christmas tree lights before leaving home or going to sleep.
Never use lit candles to decorate a tree, and place them well away from tree branches.
Try to keep live trees as moist as possible by giving them plenty of water daily. Do not purchase a tree that is dry or dropping needles.
Choose a sturdy tree stand designed not to tip over.
When purchasing an artificial tree, be sure it is labeled as fire-retardant

35. Fire Safety Tips
Children are fascinated with Christmas trees. Keep a watchful eye on them when around the tree and do not let them play with the wiring or lights.
Store matches and lighters up high, out of the reach of children, preferably in a locked cabinet.
Make sure the tree is at least three feet (one meter) away from any heat source and try to position it near an outlet so that cords are not running long distances. Do not place the tree where it may block exits.
Safely dispose of the tree when it begins dropping needles. Dried-out trees are highly flammable and should not be left in a house or garage, or placed against the house.

36. Tips for Toy Safety
There are thousands of toys on the market, each promising to educate or entertain our children. Unfortunately, not every toy is safe. Toy buyers can help protect children from injury by being careful, vigilant shoppers. The PIRG Tips for Toy Safety are designed to help parents, grandparents, care givers and toy buyers avoid the most common hazards in toys.
National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs).

37. Tips for Toy Safety TIPS FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS
Read and heed warning labels. Young children are particularly likely to hurt themselves with toys—by choking on small parts, strangling on dangling cords, or cutting themselves on sharp points or edges. Toys that would be dangerous for young children are required by law to be labeled with warnings, like this one for small parts:
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD – Small Parts. Not for Children Under 3 yrs.
A toy with this warning should not be given to a child younger than three. Be careful to keep toys for older children away from younger ones.

38. Tips for Toy Safety
Avoid choking hazards. Do not buy small toys or toys with small parts for young children. Even precocious children under three put everything in their mouths. Choking is the most common cause of toy-related injury. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, at least six children choked to death in 2000 alone. Protect children younger than three by testing small toys and parts of toys with a small parts testing tube (available at many toy stores) or a toilet paper tube. If a toy or toy part fits inside the tube, a child could choke on it.

39. Tips for Toy Safety
Never give young children small balls or balloons. Small balls, balloons and pieces of broken balloons are particularly dangerous choking hazards, as they can completely block a child’s airway.
Make sure balls for children under six years old are more than 1.75 inches in diameter.
Never give latex balloons to children younger than eight years old. Mylar balloons are a safer alternative.

40. Tips for Toy Safety Avoid strangulation hazards.
Keep mobiles out of the reach of children in cribs. Remove mobiles completely before the child is five months old or can push up on hands and knees.
Keep cords short or out of children’s reach.
Check the ends of pull toys. Remove knobs or beads from cords longer than one foot to prevent the cords from tangling into a dangerous loop.
Check openings on cribs and play gyms to be sure that a child’s head can not be trapped.

41. Tips for Toy Safety TIPS FOR OLDER CHILDREN
Buy children accessories for safety. Toys like bicycles, scooters, skateboards and inline skates are safer when children wear protective gear. If you plan to give any of these toys as gifts, make them safer by also giving a CPSC-approved helmet with a bike; a helmet, knee pads and elbow pads with a scooter or a skateboard; and a helmet, knee pads, elbow pads and wrist guards with inline skates.

42. Tips for Toy Safety
NOISE Children’s ears are more sensitive than adults’, and their hearing is easily damaged. To protect children from loud toys, you can:
Use your own ears as a guide. If a toy seems loud to you, it is probably too loud for a child.
Take the batteries out of loud toys or cover speakers with tape.

43. Tips for Toy Safety
TOYS ON THE INTERNET Unfortunately, the labels and warnings required on toys in stores are rarely repeated on Web sites that sell toys. Parents and consumers using the Internet to buy toys should remember:
• Some toys sold on the Internet may be manufactured by companies that do not comply with U.S. toy regulations.
• Toys sold on auction sites like may have been recalled by the CPSC as hazardous. Check the CPSC website, to see whether a toy or children’s product has been recalled

44. Tips for Toy Safety
REPORT A DANGEROUS TOY/CHECK FOR DANGEROUS TOYS The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has the authority to recall dangerous toys and products from the market. If you think a toy or product is hazardous, contact the CPSC and submit a report by:
Phone: Fax: Web:
Or by mail at :
Office of the Clearinghouse U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Washington, D.C