9 Home Fire Tips That Will Alarm You

1/13/2022 (Permalink)

Fires can really be so devastating. Here at SERVPRO we really are here to help ease that stress.

Home Fires

Home fires happen and so many of them can be prevented. This happens to over 350,000 homes each year. By knowing some of these home safety tips you can lower the risk and help protect your loved ones.

1. People are twice as likely to die in a fire where there aren’t working smoke alarms. Make sure you have working smoke alarms.
2. You need a smoke alarm in the basement and attic but not your bathroom or kitchen. Those get set off too easy and you tend to take the battery out. Therefore you now won’t be notified of smoke. There should be one in each bedroom, one outside each sleeping area, one in each hallway, and one on every level of your home.
3. Smoke alarms do have expiration dates. Make sure you’re changing them every 10 years.
4. You may only have 2 min to get out of your home when there is a fire. Once to smolder happens on a curtain or couch, it can reach a flashpoint within two minutes. Most furniture is made of synthetic material in today's world and that burns a lot faster.
5. Make sure you have a meeting place for if a fire happens.
6. Failure to clean your dryer can cause a fire.
7. Maintain your furnace. This is one a lot of people don’t know about. Servicing your furnace biannually is a wonderful idea.
8. Cooking is still the leading cause of home fires. Stay in the kitchen while cooking.
9. A quarter of fires happen when people are sleeping. Try not to cook while sleeping.

I hope these tips can help you keep your home a little safer. If you do have a fire, we are happy to help you here at SERVPRO with what is next and take some of that burden off of you.