According to the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA)

Kitchen Safety Oven Fires: Turn off the heat and keep the door closed to prevent flames from burning you Just the facts: and your clothing. According to the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA)… Microwave Fires:  On average, there are 91,700 reported Keep the door closed and unplug home fires each year associated with the microwave. Call the fire department cooking equipment, killing 327 people and make sure to have the microwave and injuring 4,607. serviced before you use it again. Food  Cooking fires are the #1 cause of home cooked in a microwave can be fires and home fire injuries. dangerously hot. Remove the lid or other  Unattended cooking is the leading coverings from microwaved foods cause of home cooking fires. carefully to prevent steam burns.  Three in every ten reported home fires start in the kitchen – that’s more than any other place in the home.

Cooking Safety Tips Grease Fires: Always keep a potholder, oven mitt and lid handy. If a small grease fire starts in a pan, put on an oven mutt and smother the flames by carefully sliding the lid over the pan. Turn off the burner. Don’t remove the lid until it is completely cool. Never pour water on a grease fire and never discharge a fire extinguisher onto a pan fire, as it can spray or shoot burning grease around the kitchen, actually spreading the fire. Prevent Accidental FIRE ALARMS TURN EXHAUST FAN ON BEFORE USING OVEN OR STOVE Heating Safety

Just the facts: The BASICS According to the NFPA  On average, there are 59,100 reported According to the NFPA home fires per year associated with  In the United States and Canada, a heating equipment, killing 468 people home fire is reported to a fire and injuring 1,592. department roughly every 75  Heating fires are the second leading seconds. Fires kill 350 people and cause of home fires. During the months injure more than 1,300. of December, January, and February,  Eighty percent of all U.S fire deaths heating is the leading cause of home occur in the home. fires.  Someone is killed in a home fire in  Most heating fires involve space the United States and Canada heaters, not central furnaces. roughly every three hours.  Installing space heaters too close to  Smoke alarms are the most combustibles (or placing combustibles effective early warning device too close to them) are major causes of available. Having a smoke alarm space heater fires. in your home cuts your chance of dying in a fire nearly in half! Safety Advice:  Space heaters need space. Space heaters should be at least three feet (one meter) away from walls, furniture, and anything that can burn, including people and pets.  Always use the proper fuel in a heater. For example, never use gasoline as a fuel in a heater designed for kerosene or oil.  Portable space heaters should be Safety Advice: turned off every time you leave the room  Install at least one smoke alarm on or go to sleep. each level of your home and in or near all sleeping areas. Smoke alarms should be tested once a month and batteries replaced once a year or when the alarm beeps, warning that the battery is low.  Every household should develop and practice a home fire escape plan that includes two ways out of every room and an outside meeting place. Electrical Safety

Just the facts: According to the NFPA  On average, there are 36,400 home Safety Advice: fires per year associated with wiring,  Replace or repair any electrical switches, outlets, cords and plugs, fuse device with a loose or frayed cord. and circuit breaker boxes, and other  Avoid running extension cords equipment involved in distributing across doorways or under carpets. electricity around the home. These  In homes with small children, electrical service equipment fires electrical outlets should have annually kill 352 people and injure 1,343 plastic safety covers annually.  Follow the manufacturer’s  Fixed wiring causes 1/3 of home instruction for plugging an electrical distribution fires. appliance into a receptacle outlet.  Cords and plugs cause 1/6 of home Most receptacle outlets contain two electrical distribution fires and 1/3 of receptacles. As an added related deaths. In many cases, people precaution, consider plugging only can easily check and fix them, if one high-wattage appliance into necessary, without a licensed each receptacle outlet, electrician.  Avoid the use of “cube taps” and  Each year, electrical shock (not resulting other devices that allow the in a fire) causes hundreds of burn connection of multiple appliances deaths and thousands of burn injuries. into a single receptacle outlet.  Nearly 2/3 of electrical burn injuries  Place lamps on level surfaces among children ages 12 and under, are away from things that can burn. associated with household electrical  Use bulbs that match the lamps cords and extension cords. recommended wattage.

Electrical Safety Tips:

GFCIs: (ground fault circuit interrupters) can reduce the risk of shock by shutting off faulty electrical circuits and equipment faster than conventional fuses or circuit breakers can. GFCIs are inexpensive; professional electricians can hard-wire them into your home electrical systems. Push Back: In the kitchen, push back cords for countertop appliances to keep young children from pulling them off the counter.