Clinton County Firefighters Association provides tips for safe home cooking
▶ Be alert.
▶ Stay in the kitchen when frying, grilling or broiling food. Turn off the stove if you are leaving the kitchen.
▶ If you are simmering, baking, roasting or boiling food, check it regularly, and use a timer as a reminder that it is cooking. ▶ Keep anything that can catch fire away from your stove top, such as oven mitts, utensils and towels.If you have a cooking fire:
▶ Keep a lid nearby to smother small grease fires.
▶ For oven fires, turn off the heat and keep the door closed.
▶ If you try to fight the fire, be sure others are getting out, and you have a clear way out.
▶ When in doubt, just get out. Close the door behind you to contain the fire.
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Home Fire Prevention and Safety
These home tips for preventing fires are basic rules of thumb. In attempting to use a fire extinguisher to extinguish a fire, generally if the fire is bigger than the physical size of the fire extinguisher call the fire department. In any case, always call the fire department after you've put out a fire to check that you have done everything to eliminate the cause
Ways to Protect Your Family From Fire
These home tips for preventing fires are basic rules of thumb. In attempting to use a fire extinguisher to extinguish a fire, generally if the fire is bigger than the physical size of the fire extinguisher call the fire department. In any case, always call the fire department after you've put out a fire to check that you have done everything to eliminate the cause
Ways to Protect Your Family From Fire
- Install Smoke Detectors and Carbon Monoxide Detectors. They do save lives. Just ask some residents of West Chazy who's Carbon Monoxide Detector saved there life. -- Smoke is responsible for 3 out of 4 fire deaths. The loud siren at the first sign of smoke will give your family those extra few minutes to escape safely. Test it once a month. Change batteries at least twice a year.
- Establish an Escape Plan -- Have frequent family meetings to establish escape routes from your dwelling. Every room should have 2 routes of escape. Rope ladders are recommended for upper floor windows. Have practice drills every 3 months.
- Place Fire Extinguishers throughout the home
Type B : to extinguish grease, oil, gasoline, petroleum and other flammable liquid fires. Keep one in the kitchen, the garage and the workshop.
Type C : to extinguish electrical fires. Keep one in the kitchen and the laundry room.
Type ABC : for extinguishing all three types of fires.
Be safe in the kitchen In the US, more than half of all accidental fires in your home start in the kitchen. Nearly all of these involve the cooker. Here are a few simple rules to help you stay safe:- Never hang tea towels on the cooker.
- Never leave the cooker alone when it is switched on.
- Make sure the cooker is turned off when you have finished using it.
- Don't let leads from other appliances like kettles or toasters trail across the cooker.
- Don't let fat and grease build up on the cooker, especially in the grill pan where it can easily catch fire.
- Never allow children in the kitchen unsupervised.
- Pull the pin. Hold the extinguisher with the nozzle
pointing away from you, and release the locking
mechanism.
- Aim low. Point the extinguisher at the base of the fire.
- Squeeze the lever slowly and evenly.
- Sweep the nozzle from side-to-sideKnow when to go. Fire extinguishers are one element of a fire response plan, but the primary element is safe escape. Every household should have a home fire escape planand working smoke alarms