Fire Safety Tips
Install smoke detectors, test monthly, & change the batteries at least twice a year.
Make an escape plan with your family, PRACTICE the plan so everyone knows what to do.
A. Install Smoke Detectors
B. Plan two ways out of every room
C. Crawl low under smoke
D. Have a meeting place
E. Go to the neighbors and call for help. In Livingston County, call 911.
Remember! When Fire Strikes: Get Out! And Stay out!
Fire
Facts
- Most of cooking
and heating equipment fires involve human error.
- In the United States
95% of all homes have at least one smoke detector.
- Using sprinklers
and smoke alarms together can cut your risk of dying in a home fire
by 82%.
- One out of every
four home fire deaths resulted from a fire started by smoking materials.
- Eight out of ten
fire deaths take place in the home. In 2001, 3,110 civilians died in
home fires.
- In residences with
sprinklers installed, 90% of fires are contained by the operation of
just one sprinkler head.
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