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NFPA (a fire every 20 seconds, and a civilian died in a fire every 135 minutes. Still thousands of people were
injured in home fires-many hospitalized
in any home. It may surprise you to learn that few fire victims die from burns. Most die from inhaling
smoke's poisonous gases, which work silently and quickly. If fire hits your home, you may never wake
up. If you do wake up, poisonous gases may still knock you out if you stand up. Toxic gases work in
different ways, all of them deadly.
Carbon Monoxide:
In addition, the smoke itself consists of particles that restrict visibility by obscuring light. Give yourself an early warning, have smoke alarms.
More than half of all fatal home fires strike at night, while people
are
asleep, so every home needs smoke alarms to wake people up before smoke
overcomes them. Minimum protection requires smoke alarms
outside
each sleeping area and on each additional level of the home. Recent
surveys
have shown that, while tens of millions of homes have smoke alarms,
roughly
one-third of those alarms are not in good working order. Replace the
batteries
according to the manufacturer's recommendations or at least once a
year.
Test your smoke alarms once a week to make sure you're protected.
Follow
the manufacturer's instructions for testing. It only takes a minute to
test a smoke alarm, that could save your life. Properly installed and
maintained,
smoke alarms can warn you in time to escape. When the smoke alarm
sounds,
if at night or you know people are sleeping, yell fire and warn others,
get out of the burning building and once you are out stay out. Call the
Fire Department from a neighbors, use your cellular phone, cordless
phone
or car phone, but never call from inside a burning building. Know the
number
for the Fire Department. Most Cities use  |
Parents with young children watch this presentation:
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Links Updated January 17, 2008 |
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