Preventing fires at home should be at the top of the safety concerns for everybody. Whether you own your home, condominium, apartment or flat, or you rent your place of residence, preventing fires is very important for safety. In addition to structural damage, personal property loss and bodily injuries that fires can cause, there may be hundreds of items of personal interest value and sentimental value that can be destroyed, damaged or badly burnt beyond recovery from fires. If you are a landlord that owns and rents out apartments, flats or homes, it is in your interest to make sure that your tenants prevent fires from happening in the first place. While renters may have renters’ insurance, it is still important to prevent fires proactively rather than react after the fact.
The cardinal method to preventing fires is to be vigilant first of all to open flames such as candles. People like to burn candles nowadays that put out wonderful fragrances. However, unattended candles pose high levels of fire hazard. If a candle is not in your vicinity then don’t light it. Do not leave candles burning when you go to bed or leave the house; put them out when you are not going to be around or are going to bed. I was at a party at my friend’s apartment one day and they had a perfumed candle burning in their bathroom. The candle had accidentally tipped over and fell into the waste basket that was full of paper and it caught fire. Fortunately, I had to go to the bathroom moments after this had happened and I immediately put it out by pouring water from bathroom cups that were available. Again, unattended burning candles are a big fire hazard.
Keeping smoke alarms and fire alarms maintained well is very important. Replace the batteries with new ones periodically; do not mix new batteries with used ones; use new ones only. Remember the cost of the batteries is minuscule compared to the cost of replacing items damaged by fire and smoke. De-activating smoke alarms and fire alarms is the biggest mistake one can make.
Keeping a few good fire extinguishers in your home is important for fire safety. If your house is multi-level, then keep a couple fire extinguishers in each level. There is no use in keeping fire extinguishers if nobody else in the house knows where they are or how to operate them; hence training everyone in the home as to the exact location and the proper operation of the fire extinguishers is equally important. This may sound like a lot of work, but the effort is well worth it.
So please keep all fire hazards out of your residence.
Fire Safety at Home
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