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i t t 8 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, October 10,1990 Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono PETER LOMAX Peter has been a part-time firefighter for a little over three years. He is an employee of General Motors. Presented by Orono Fuel and Lumber Station Street, Orono Telephone 983-9167 Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono DENNIS ABRAMOFF Dennis has been a part-time firefighter for six years. He is an.employee of General Motors. Presented by Hamilton's Insurance Service Main Street, Orono Telephone 983-5115 Section Two Stephen Bull Michael Dennis Richard Griffin BILL THOMAS Bill has been a part-time firefighter for almost six years. He is an employee of , General Motors. Presented by Northcutt Elliott Funeral Home 53 Division Street, Bowmanville Telephone 623-5668 RON BOARDMAN Ron has been a part-time firefighter for almost four years. He is employed at R. R. Engineering. Presented by Highway 115 Truck and Auto Repair R.R. 1, Orono Telephone 983-9151 Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono CARL COATHAM Carl has been a part-time firefighter for one year. He is employed at General Motors. ■ Presented by Blyeven-Stoter Insurance Brokerage R.R. No. 6, Bowmanville Telephone 623-5300 Plan Now to Protect Your Home A house fire is tragic. It is doubly tragic when a child dies in it. Protect your home from fire. Teach your children what to do in case of a fire in our home. Don't let your ome become a fire trap. Here are some helpful tips for you to follow to make your home as safe as possible from fire and its tragic aftermath. -Install smoke alarms. -Test and maintain smoke alarms. -Have a multi-purpose (ABC) fire extinguisher on hand. 1 -Plan your escape -Keep a copy of all emergency numbers by the telephone. Fire extinguishers should be mounted near all exits. A multi-purpose fire extinguisher belongs in the kitchen. Bracket it to the wall, near an exit and not too close to the stove. Otherwise, should a stove fire break out, it may become become inaccessible. There are four types of fires: Class A - wood, cloth, paper, etc.; Class B - flammable liquids, oil, fats, gasoline, etc.; Class C - charged or live electrical electrical wiring, appliances, power motors, etc.; and Class D - combustible metals, magnesium, potassium, potassium, etc. If you use a Class A extinguisher extinguisher on a Class C fire, jyou may electrocute yourself. Fight a Class D fire with a Class A extinguisher extinguisher and you will cause an explosion. Blast a Class B fire with a Class A extinguisher and ou'll make the fire igger. If you find all this information information hard to remember remember in an emergency, yoii are not alone. True, an ABC extinguisher extinguisher will not help you fight a Class D fire, but unless your mag-wheels burst into flames, or you have some very strange hobbies, a Class D home fire is unlikely. This means that an ABC extinguisher extinguisher should provide rotection against most ousehold fires. A portable, lightweight extinguisher has a discharge discharge time of up to eight to ten seconds. There is no time to waste. Aim the discharge at the base of the fire and, for a second, keep up the spray after knock-down to reduce the chance of a flare up. Save a few seconds of discharge discharge if you can. The fire may start up again. Fight a fire only if the home has been evacuated, evacuated, the fire department has been called, your back is to an exit, the fire is small and contained in one area and you know what yourYe doing. Moreover, you should keep in mind the following following Facts on fire extinguishers: extinguishers: - Fire extinguishers must bear the ULC symbol. symbol. - To prevent the powder powder from caking, tip the ABC fire extinguisher over and give the loottom a light tap once in while. - Do not teach a young child to operate an extinguisher. extinguisher. - Children must run from a fire, not stay and fight. - Read thé label. It will tell you everything you need to know. . - Buy and maintain a couple of ABC multipurpose multipurpose extinguishers. - Never allow fire to come between you and an exit. Smoke alarms must be installed, but don't put one in the kitchen. Burnt toast or food will cause it to respond. Do not put it near the bathroom, near an air register or the furnace furnace exhaust or on an uninsulated uninsulated exterior wall. Do put a smoke alarm on each floor of the house, especially in bedrooms with bunk beds. Smoke rises, making the person in the top bunk move vulnerable. vulnerable. Put . smoke alarms in stair wells, long halls and in each bedroom. If you have to mount an alarm on the wall, mount it 10" down from the ceiling. Smoke alarms won't work if, they are clogged with dust. So vacuum and clean them every six months. Make sure your children children know what your smoke alarm sounds like. The signal may sound like the buzz of the burglar burglar alarm or the stove timer. Most hydro powered smoke alarms nave a power on indicator light. Is it on? Building your own home? Budget for a residential residential sprinkler system. Too expensive? Talk it over with your home insurance insurance agent. Over the long term you may not only be saving money, but your life as well. Plan for a speedy exit. It should take moments to escape from a multilevel multilevel house fire. Draw a diagram of your house. Mark all the possible exits, exits, including windows. Keep in mind, small children children need practice. Left to their own devices, a terrified child may scramble scramble under a bed and hide. Children must be told that 'Nothing is more important important than their safety* and if they hear the detector detector go off, they are to 'crawl' out of the house by. the shortest, planned and practiced route. Let's practice. Everyone Everyone undressed and in bed? Set off the alarm and shout, 'Fire in the kitchen' or 'fire in the • basement.' Everyone rolls out of bed and onto the floor. Crawl to the door - is it hot? No? Then, bracing bracing your shoulder against it, open it and peek out. See any fire? No. Then crawl out into the hall and close the door. Then crawl as fast as you can to the nearest exit. DO NOT STOP TO PUT ON CLOTHES!!! Those few moments you spend doing so could trap you inside - JUST GET OUT!! AND, STAY OUT.! Remember: Hold fire drills regularly, choosing different fire locations each time; Draw up escape escape plans for Grandma's house or the cottage and hold a drill àt the houses if possible. After a drill, meet at a pre-arranged place; don't make one child responsible for another another during a fire; everyone everyone should learn the emergency number by heart. All of these things should be practiced in our home on a regular asis. It is something that you and I .always plan to do, but never get around to. Doing it tomorrow tomorrow may be too late. Don't put if off. You can always shop or clean later later and that TV programme programme will probably come back in re-runs. But, you and your family ' only have one life and there is no tomorrow when fire extinguishes it. Please practice fire* prevention prevention safety. Many Changes Taking Place at Fire Dept. One of the busier spots nl the Town of Newcastle Fire Department is the Dispatch Console. Above, Randy Cowan records a message from a caller. The now equipment shown hero 1ms been in use since September September and it has a variety of functions. It enables instant instant communication will all full-time and part-time firofightors. It includes a system that records all of the calls received. There is also an instant play-back feature which enables the dispatcher to listen to a message repeatedly - an important feature if the call which was received is garbled or difficult to understand. understand. All stations can bo dispatched from this console and the device can also communicate with Newcastle Hydro and Newcastle Public Works Department frequencies. frequencies. Those are some of the members of the Nowcastlo Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 3139, who aro members of the International Association of fire Fichtora (IAFF). From left, Captain Bill Hosson, Mark Dornoy, Don Chambers, Owen Ferguson, Potor Lomax.