Fire Safety Advisor | Fire prevention information

  Fire Prevention

Fires are very dangerous and should never ever be treated lightly.  Children should not be left unattended with anything such as matches or cigarette lighters within arms reach.

The following advice for preventing fires might help you.

1. Set your alarms and make sure they are covered by the standards in your country. Test your alarm monthly, and change the batteries every year.

2. The most common fires are chip pan fires, so remember to never leave the stove unattended.

3. When lighting a candle, always use a safety candleholder, and keep your candle, or anything
     flammable away from draughts that can spread the fire.

4. Keep your heaters away from your funiture and flammable items, aslso, turn them off when
    you leave the house, even if is for five minutes.

5. Purchase a fixed fire guard, In order to place around open fire.

6. Don't use  hot power tools, and don't leave a soldering iron unattanded.

7. In the night, before you go to sleep, unplug all the electrical items in your house.

8. When using fuses in any electrical items, use them correctly.

9.  Make sure all stoves are put out if leaving the house of going to sleep

9. If you can, try avoid from using multi-way socket adapters.

10. Never put you electrical items cables under the carpets. 

Gas fires

• Leaking gas
  • Never enter an area with a lighted match or cigarette & dont use electricity if you smell gas from a pipe, heater or stove. The smallest spark or flame could ignite gas in the air and cause an explosion.
• How to fight small gas fires
  • Shut off gas supply.  Smother with rug, blanket or type B extinguisher or cool with water. Ventilate the area to let gases out. Call 911 and the fire fighters always to have the area pipes checked for further hazards. Call the gas company. Note: if the gas fills the room or house It creates the potential for an explosion. Therefore, the primary key is to shut off the gas supply and call 911.

Most of the fires are started because of carelessness, you can prevent fire.

As soon as the fire fighters arrive with their fire trucks make sure you do exactly as they say and dont disturb them.