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Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 5 of 12 Your Kitchen, a grease fire, what ever you do, don't throw water on it!

If your cooking food in a pan and it should cateche fire, smother the flames of the fire by sliding a lid over it. Please don't use a extionguisher with a grease fire, by using a extinguisher you could very will spread the burning grease and will spread the fire. Call your local Fire Department. You should report any fire that you have to the Fire Department, even if you feel the fire is out.

What should you do, if you have a Oven or Microwave sould one or the other catches fire?

Turn it off and the oven or the microwave's door closed. And do not use which ever one it may have been, again until you have has it looked at and serviced.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 5 of 12 Your Kitchen, some tips for your safety:

Never leave your kitchen you or anyone in your family, has food cooking on the stove.

If you should feel really tired, you should not be cooking, plus if you have been drinking any kind of alcohol excessively, you should not be cooking. And if your Doctor has you taking a medication, or if you are taking some kind of cold medication that makes you drowsy, you should not be cooking.

You should keep all pot holders, food packages, your cookbooks and any other kind of combustibles off of your stovetop.

Wipe up any spills and clean your oven. Any built up grease can catch fire and its sure going to spread very quickly.

When cooking, turn the pot handles in so you won't accidentally bump into them, and end up injuring yourself, and you sure don't want to accidentally injur one of your kids, or creating a fire situation in the kitchen.

Home Fire Sahety For First Time Home Buyers Part 5 of 12 Your Kitchen, the electrical appliances in your kitchen:

Only use one heat producing appliance on the same electrical curcuit at a time. Folks overloading an outlet is a very common fire safety issue in a home, that can very easily be avoided.

Its highly recommended to have a ground-fault circuit-interruptes installed on all kitchen counter outets.

Be sure not to ever use a appliarnce that has a cracked or frayed electrical cord.

Link to Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 6 of 12 Safe Candles

Post 634 - 29 Nov. 2009

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 6 of 12 Safe Candles, folks using candles in their homes has increased over the last few years and with this, the number of home fires from the misuse of using real wax candles has increased.

There are many kinds of safer candles out there on the market now for folks to use. Like the battery operated flameless candles. There are even some that are even remote controled. New how easy is that.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 6 of 12 Safe Candles, these safer alternatives candles use small L.E.D. light bulbs that don't generate any heat, but do flicker to still provide you with a realalistic flame effect to enjoy. These flameless candles are also very efficient and have a long life using battery power. Some of the designs that have been incorporate air fresheners and scents that are just as realistic as if you were using a real burning candle. By using flameless candles as a substitute for real flame, virtually eliminates the very possibility of having a candle fire in your home or in the a workplace.


If you do still use real candles then Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting, would like to ask you to use these safety measures when doing so please.

Be sure to use sturdy candle holders that won't tip over easily, and are made only out of non combustable materials.

Keep the candle's dripping wax inside the candle holder. Candle wax can act as a wick, and carry a flame to a combustible item.

You should always place a candle holder on a sturdy, and uncluttered surface. They should also be kept away from the edge and out of the reach of kids hands.

Keep hair and loose clothing away from a lit candle.

Candle wicks should be kept trimmed. Its usual recommended that the wick be kept one-quarter inch from the top of the candle.

Extinguish a candle when it has burnt down to within two inches of the holder or any decorative material. And it should not be used again.

Be sure to extinguish candles carefully. One should never leave the room until the wick of any candle
has stopped glowing.

You really should not use candles in the bedroom or any kind of sleeping area.

Keep all candles at least one foot from anything that can burn, like curtains and blinds, wallpaper, upholstered furniture, clothing, and newspaper.

And Please never leave a burning candle unattended.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 6 of 12 Safe Candles, always use candle safety during any power outages.

Avoid using candles for emergency lighting. Always keep flashlights and battery powerd lamps, and a stock of fresh new batteries on hand in a designated area. Something thats so easy and simple can be a real life saver.

Link to Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 7 of 12 Smoke Alarms

Post 633 - 29 Nov. 2009

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 7 of 12 Smoke Alarms, Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting, would like everyone to think of Prevention, Detection, and Escape in order to avoid or survive a fire in your home. When your Home Inspector is Inspecting a home for you and your family, he or she should make note as if there are or are not Smoke Alarms in the home, this fact should be in the Home Inspection Report you raceive.

Smoke Alarms are very critical for the early detection of a fire in you'res and your family's home, and could very will mean the difference between life and death of you and your family. A fire can occur in a variety of ways and in any room of your home. Thats why its so important to have, and Smoke Alarms are the first key step towards your family's safety.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 7 of 12 Smoke Alarms, most fire fatalities occur in homes, mainly when folks are sleeping. A fire is quiet and it moves very fast, if you're sleeping you can't smell smoke. A Photo-electric smoke alarm is the best way to wake you and your family from a deep sleep and give y'all time to escape your home safely, in the case of a fire.

A fire produces heat, smoke and toxic gases, smoke rises and moves along the ceiling, it moves up stairwells and any vertical openings. When smoke can't rise anymore its going to build up, and then will work its way back down again.

That is why its important to have smoke alarms on the ceilings of your home, so you and your family get the earliest warning. But if you should have to put a smoke alarm on a wall 4 inches from the ceiling, so you'll avoid deed air pockets.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 7 of 12 Smoke Alarms, types of smoke alarms:

Ionization smoke alarms are most common, the least expensive, and tend to detect the smoke produced of a fast burning fires that has visible flames faster than the smoke from a smouldering fire.

Photo-electric smoke alarm can be harder to find, they do cost slightly more, and tend to detect smoke produced by a slow burning and smouldering fire that has very little flame to it. This kind of smoke alarm is very highly recommended for homes that a smoker lives, due to a greater potential of a smouldering fire that can be caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette.

Maintenance of your smoke alarms:

Once a month vacuum or blow out dust from your smoke alarms.

Test your smoke alarms at least once a month.

Change the batteries at least once a year. The easiest way to remember is to change the batteries, is when you change your clocks, in the spring or fall. A chirping sound also indicates its time to change the batteries.

If your smoke alarms are ten years old its time to replace them with new ones. There should be a label on the alarm, with the date when it was manufactured. Now if it dose not have a label, its already more than ten years old. When you buy a home, you not know just how old the smoke alarms are in the home, you really should think about install new ones.

Link to Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 8 of 12 Space Heaters

Post 632 - 28 Nov. 2009

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 8 of 12 Space Heaters, space heaters come in all kinds of different shapes and sizes. There are electric, propane, and kerosene space heaters. Sometimes during colder weather folks turn to using portable space heaters to supplement their home's main heating system. When folks misuse a space heater sure can cause them to become a fire hazard to their home.

Back in 1994 the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated that electric space heaters were associated with 2,400 fires resulting in 80 deaths, 240 injuries, and $48.2 million in property loss for folks. Be sure to maintain a three foot clearace between all heating equipment and anything that can very will end up causing a fire to start in you home.

Be sure to look for a space heater, that is listed with a nationally recognized testing laboratory. These space heaters have been tested to meet specific safety standards, and manufacturers are required to provide the use and care information to folks. On heaters that are not listed, folks have less assurance that the safety features and operating instructions are adequate.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 8 of 12 Space Heaters, Also be sure that your choice of heating equipment is permitted by law in your community. Kerosene heaters, chimineas, and firepits are not allowed in all communities.

Never plug a electric space heater into an extension cord.

Don't overload your electric panel, if a circuit braker continue to triping. Be sure to reduce the number of electrical appliances on that circuit. Only plug a power cord into an outlet with sufficient capacity.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 8 of 12 Space Heaters, use CSA or ULC approved products.

Never use a space heater that has a damaged electrical cord.

When using a fuel fired space heater, always use the proper fuel thats specified by the manufacturer. When you need to fefuel, allow the heater to cool and refuel it outside or in a very well ventilated area. When using a fulel heater, open a window to ensure adequate venting.

Always turn off and unplug your space heater when leaving the room or your home.

Be sure to turn off and unplug any space heaters before you and your family, goes to bed.

Link to Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 9 of 12 Tips for Babysitters

Post 631 - 27 Nov. 2009

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 9 of 12 Tips for Babysitters, its important to always be prepared, no matter the job. Know the address of the home your babysitting at, what the phone number that the parents can be reached, a atternative phone number, like for another family member, or the phone number of one of the neighbor. And of course if its a major kind of emergency, call 911.

Ask the parents about there household fire escape plan, and where its posted. You'll be able to find out what they expect you to do, and you'll be giving them a friendly reminder to plan ahead for any fire emergencies.

If this is your first time babysitting at the home, ask them if they will give you a tour of their home. Learn where all the windows and doors are, and be sure you can open them.

Find out where the family's outside meeting spot where everyone is supposed to meet at, when they escaped a fire. That way you'll be able to count everyone to be sure everyone is out of the home and safe. If someone is not a counted for, tell a firemen as soon as they arrive, and let them know the last location of the child was. You should never return to the inside of the home.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 9 of 12 Tips for Babysitters, always stay calm, then you'll be able to think better and faster when you remain calm. Your very first job is to get the kids and yourself out of the home safely.

Supervise the kids when they are awake and be sure to check on them often when they'er in bed. And once the kids are sound a sleep, be sure to stay close enough so you can hear them if one of them should wake up.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 9 of 12 Tips for Babysitters, don't smoke, put matches and lighters away - up high where kids can't reach them.

Keep the kids away from any heating sources.

If you're allowed to cook, but always have the parents permission to do so first, declare a kids free zone, of at least three feet around the stove or microwave.

Be sure to turn pot handles to the centre of the stove so kids can't grab them. And never leave the kitchen when you're cooking, remember this is not your home. Be sure toys, clothing, paper and all other clutter is off and away from the stove.

Be sure to also follow all cooking instructions and never leave anything unattended.

Link to Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 10 of 12 Woodstoves

Post 630 - 26 Nov. 2009