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Home Fire Safety Checklist
SHome Fire Safety Checklist:
1. Remove all combustible rubbish, leaves, and debris from your yard.
2. Remove all waste, debris, and litter from your garage.
3. If you store paint, varnish, etc., in your garage, make sure the containers are tightly closed.
4. Have an approved safety can for the storing of gasoline/oil for lawn mowers and automobiles.
5. Keep your basement, storerooms, and attic free from rubbish, oily rags, old papers, mattresses, and broken furniture.
6. Have a sufficient number of metal cans with lids for rubbish and combustible debris.
7. Keep all stoves, broilers, and other cooking equipment clean and free of grease.
8. Keep arranged curtains away from stoves to prevent blowing over the burners or flames.
9. Forbid members of the family to start fires in stoves or fireplaces with kerosene or other flammable liquids.
10. Always see that your portable space heater is placed well away from curtains, drapes, furniture, etc.
11. Make sure your electrical appliances including irons, mixers, heaters, lamps, fans, radios, television sets, and other devices "UL" listed.
12. Make sure rooms have an adequate number of outlets to take care of electrical appliances.
13. Do away with all multiple attachment plugs.
14. Make sure flexible electrical extension and lamp cords in your home are in the open. (None placed under rugs, over hooks, through partitions or door openings)
15. Keep matches in a metal container away from heat and away from children.
16. Extinguish all matches, cigarettes, and cigar butts carefully before disposing of them.
17. Make sure there are plenty of noncombustible ash trays in all rooms throughout the house.
18. Are members of the family instructed not to smoke in bed?
19. The number to the fire department is 911.
20. Have a home escape plan in case of a fire.
21. Hold home fire drills at least once a month.
22. Instruct babysitters on what to do in case of a fire.
23. Insure that entire family take part in completing this checklist.
24. Have at least a smoke detector on every level of your home, and within 15 feet of your bedrooms.