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A Plan of Escape if there is a Fire in Your Home... We've talked about evacuation before, as well as Emergency Planning and Evacuation Procedures for businesses, but what is the plan at home? If a fire starts in your home, you may have only one to two minutes to escape. Your ability to get out safely depends on having working...

Working smoke alarms save lives, cutting the risk of dying in a home fire in half. The most dangerous fires are in homes without working smoke alarms. Most people who are killed in house fires die from carbon monoxide and smoke inhalation, not burns. Have an escape plan if fire breaks out in the home - “two ways out” should...

Do you have a Fire Plan at work? Not only should ever workplace have an evacuation map and plan, conduct drills, and have fire and evacuation equipment on hand, but any organization should have a specific procedure for reporting a fire or fire threat. If a fire alarm or alert is sounded or a fire is reported by an employee...

Tomorrow begins Burn Awareness Week. All week we will be sharing Fire & Burn Safety information for you to read, learn and share. Burn Awareness Week, observed the first full week in February, is designed to provide an opportunity for burn, fire and life safety educators to unite in sharing a common burn awareness and prevention message in our communities...