For Fire Safety Seminar Attendees

If you recently attended a DeTech Home Fire Safety Seminar, you can help make your family much safer, and save some time too, by printing out this Safety Checklist and completing it before the DeTech Safety Consultant visits your home. When s/he arrives, show them your completed checklist.

HOME FIRE SAFETY CHECKLIST

Kitchen

• Keep a fire extinguisher in the kitchen.
• Maintain electric and gas stoves in good operating condition.
• Keep baking soda on hand to extinguish stove top grease fires.
• Move the handles of pots and pans containing hot liquids away from the front of the stove.
• Store matches and lighters out of the reach of children.
• Properly store flammable liquids in approved containers and away from ignition sources such as pilot lights.

Living Room

• Install a screen on your fireplace.
• Store the ashes from your fireplace (and barbecue) in a non-combustible container and dispose of only when cold.
• Clean fireplace chimneys and flues at least once a year.

Hallway

• Make sure that electrical outlets are designed to handle appliance loads.
• Install child safety plugs (caps) on electrical outlets.
• Replace electrical cords that do not work properly, have loose connections or are frayed.

Bedroom

• Unplug electric blankets and other electric appliances when not in use.
• Do not smoke in bed.
• Keep a fire extinguisher in bedrooms if the occupant is capable of using it properly.

Garage

• Mount a fire extinguisher in the garage.
• Have tools such as a shovel, hoe, rake and bucket available for use in a wildfire emergency.
• Install a solid door with self-closing hinges between living areas and the garage.
• Dispose of oily rags in metal containers.
• Store all combustibles away from ignition sources such as water heaters.
• Disconnect electrical tools and appliances when not in use.
• Allow hot tools such as glue guns and soldering irons to cool before storing.

Exterior

• Remove dead branches overhanging your roof.
• Remove any tree limbs within 10 feet of your chimney.
• Clean all dead leaves and needles from your roof and gutters.
• Install a roof that meets the fire resistance classification of "Class C" or better.
• Cover your chimney outlet and stovepipe with a nonflammable screen of 1/2 inch or smaller mesh.

Note: Please print out this page and complete the checklist. When the Safety Consultant visits you, please show him your checklist. This will save time.