24/7 Emergency ServiceStaying Safe and Preventing Fires This Fall Season
9/26/2019 (Permalink)
Stay safe this fall and practice these fire prevention tips to prevent fire damage in your WNY home.
This summer and early fall seasons, we have noticed an increased amount of fires happening in our WNY area. Fires, no matter how big or small, can be devastating to an individual or family. In order to keep you and your family safe, we would like to share a few fire safety tips that will hopefully help prevent a fire in your home:
- Be sure there are properly working smoke detectors on every floor in your home, and in every bedroom as well. Smoke detectors save lives, especially since 50% of fires happen at night when everyone is sleeping.
- Never leave food that is cooking unattended.
- Avoid using portable and fixed space heaters. If using a space heater is necessary, be sure that there are no flammable objects within 10 feet of it. And, that it is plugged into a safe electrical outlet (not in a surge protector).
- Avoid smoking in the house.
- Check your smoke detectors twice a year (every six months).
Practice these fire safety tips and keep you and your family safe from a house fire. Should disaster strike, and you suffer a house fire this year, please do not wait and call the experts at SERVPRO of The Southtowns immediately at (716) 646-6684 to make your fire damage, “Like it never even happened”.