- Keep portable heaters at least 3 feet from anything flammable.
- Turn portable heaters off when leaving the room or going to sleep.
- Never use your oven to heat your home.
- Have your home heating system and chimney cleaned and inspected annually.
- Make sure your wood stove is properly installed and ventilated.
Fire Prevention Week
This year's theme is: CHARGE into Fire Safety
Fire Station Open House at all 5 fire stations
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 5:30pm -7:30pm
Fire Prevention
- Choose flameless candles. Most offer the same flicker effect as real candles and come in scented varieties.
- Keep traditional candles in a sturdy container that cannot be tipped over.
- Extinguish candles before leaving the room or going to sleep.
- Use flashlights - not candles - for emergency lighting if the power goes out.
- Stay in the kitchen when cooking.
- If you leave the room, turn off the stove and move the pan from the burner.
- Keep things that can burn (oven mitts, towels, wooden spoons) three feet from the stove.
- If a fire starts, slide a tight-fitting lid on the pan and turn off the heat.
- Avoid loose-fitting clothing that can easily catch fire.
- Designate a safe meeting place outside your home that everyone can get to after a fire.
- Use graph paper to draw a floor plan of your home, showing two ways out of each room.
- Make sure each family member is aware of escape options from each room.
- Practice your family escape plan twice each year.
- Walk through your home periodically and inspect all exits and escape routes.
- Install smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside each sleeping area, and on every level of the home, including the basement.
- Interconnect your home's smoke alarms. This way, when one sounds, they all sound.
- Teach children the sound of the smoke alarm and to exit the home/building when it sounds.
- Place alarms on the ceiling. If alarms are placed on the wall, they must be no more than 12 inches below the ceiling.
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