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1 . 1 f X I I 10 Section Three, Fire Prevention, Wednesday, October 12,1988 How Safe Is Your Home? 5758 55 5354 52 51 56 31 50 49 48 33 32 38 39 34 36 37 35 59 Eliminate all fire hazards in your home today! Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono SCOTT YEO Scott is one of our new volunteer firefighters firefighters having joined the Newcastle Fire Department in February of this year. Presented by New Dutch Oven Restaurant Hwy. 115 - Orono Telephone 983-5001 Be careful Three out of four fires are caused by: 1. Matches and careless smoking habits Careless discarding of lighted matches and smoking materials is responsible for,about twenty per cent of all fires from KNOWN causes. A burning match, tobacco debris or a cigarette carelessly left burning may start a disastrous fire taking heavy toll of lives and property. Remember, one little thoughtless act may take your home -- even your lifel Here are a few common sense precautions: V Keep all matches out of reach of children. Matches should he kept in non-combustible containers. • l 2. Have plenty of ash trays conveniently placed in all roomsjl 3. Be sure your lighted matches or smokes are completely out before you discard them. 4. DON'T SMOKE IN BED. 5. Don't strike matches in closets, garages or other places where flammable materials, dust or vapors may be ignited. 2. Faulty wiring and apparatus More than one in ten fires of KNOWN causes is of electrical origin. Circuits are designed to carry certain loads. The blowing of a fuse is a danger signal that the circuit is overloaded or defective. The use of a lose of larger amperage than that for which the circuit was designed destroys this protective feature. An overload of current may heat the wire to the point of starting a fire. Be sure your fuses are of correct amperage for your circuits -- 15 amperes usually are right. Don't tamper with this "safety valve". A lew common sense precautions: 1. Employ a skilled electrician to repair or extend wiring when this is necessary. 2. Buy electric appliances and cords bearing a recognized seal of approval. 3. Don't string wires under rugs, over hooks, or in any exposed place. Wear may make them dangerous. Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono ■ -s, . - ■ JACK MERCER Deputy District Chief Jack Mercer has been a part-time firefighter for 32 years. He is an employee of the Durham Region. My Apothecary 26 King St. E., Bowmanville 623-3361 Presented by Stutt's Pharmacy Main Street, Orono 983-5009 Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono ; . - > X ' /f ;'V ; - * -, - ip 1 ■ • ■ V ■ » ^ s '- , . RICHARD GRIFFIN Richard has been a part-time firefighter for almost four years. He is an employee of General Motors. Presented by rat 1 King St. W., Bowmanville 623-6622 FAMILY TRUST CORPORATION Check it with this list Living room 1. Keep plenty of clean ash trays in the room. 2. Be sure flammable curtains or drapes cannot blow over ash trays, electric bulbs, kerosene lamps, gas or candle flames. 3. Have fireplace screen to check sparks. 4. Watch for breaks or wear in lamp and appliance cords. 5. At Christmas time, or holiday seasons, take extra precautions to safeguard your home against fire in dried-out trees or decorations, or from poorly constructed or worn-out circuits of decorative lights. 6. Be sure electric circuits are sufficient to carry peak loads - reading lamps, radio, electric heaters, etc. Consult a good electrician. Dining room 7. Use electric candles to avoid hazard of open candle lights near combustible decorations at parties. 8. Be sure electric circuits can carry toasters and other appliances safely - and be sure those appliances have a recognized label when you buy them. Kitchen 9. Consult electrician when you want to extend or alter existing circuits. 10. Don't leave electric iron with current on. Use automatic cut-off type, if possible. Put it in a safe place to cool. 11. Snuff matches carefully. Don't throw them into waste baskets, garbage pails, or wood boxes. 12. Don't use or keep flammable cleaning fluids in kitchen -- or anywhere in the house. 13. Guard against spontaneous ignition fires by keeping oily rags, or cloths saturated with furniture polish, paints or wax, in closed metal containers, preferably not in a hot, closed closet or cupboard. Keep waxers and floor mops in cool open spots, on a porch, for example. 14. Be sure coal or wood stoves are at least 18 inches from walls and cover wall with sheet asbestos) or other approved insulating material. material. Place an insulated metal base on floor under stove. Watch your stove-pipes, pipe collars and flues closely for defects. 15. Always inspect stove before leaving house. 16. Put ashes in metal containers. 17. Don't let grease accumulate on stove - keep grease" containers away from stove. Smother grease fires in pans by using tight lids or covers. Salt can be thrown on grease fires. 16 See that window curtains and hanging towels cannot blow into gas flames or over hot stove. 19. If you use a coal or wood stove, don't pour kerosene on stubborn fires. Don't keep kerosene in kitchen. 2Q. Check automatic gas water heater regularly. Turn off nonautomatic nonautomatic type before leaving house unoccupied. 21. Don't throw flour, uncooked cereals or dust from a vacuum cleaner or dustpan into a lit stove -- or into a burning incinerator. Dust is explosive. Wrap up dust and dispose of it safely. Don't leave your small children at home alone. Your bedroom 22. Don't smoke in bed. 23. Dispose of matches and burning tobacco carefully in ash trays, not in waste basket. 24. If you awake at night and smell smoke, feel your bedroom door before opening it. If it's very hot, don't open it, (gases, heat and smoke may kill you). Don't jump from the window; wait for help, if you can. If you leave room, close door, to impede spread of fire. 26 Don't string electric cords or wires around room, under rugs, or over nails. 26 Watch lamp or appliance cords for dangerous wear -- and don't roll beds or heavy furniture over them. 27. Don't place ash trays or heaters where curtains or drapes may blow over them. 26 Be sure electric circuits are adequate for all appliances and an electric heater if you use one. 3. Heating and cooking stoves, etc. One out of every ten fires is caused by faulty chimneys, flues, cooking or heating stoves, furnaces, carelessness with fireplaces or hot ashes, or sparks on roofs, etc. Most frequent causes of destructive destructive fire in heating plants or appliances are: sub-standard equipment, equipment, incorrect installation and construction, lack of care in maintenance and unsafe operation. All heating plants, pipes or appliances should be at least 18 inches away from any wall or burnable material. Heaters, including stoves, should be on insulated metal, cement or other incombustible bases. Walls and ceilings near stoves should be protected by asbestos sheeting or other insulating material. Clean chimneys every year, and repair promptly when cracks or loose mortar appear. Never "force" a furnace to get more heat. Consult your heating man about increasing its efficiency safely. r Empty hot ashes into metal containers -- never into wooden boxes. 4. Kerosene and carelessness One in ten fires is caused by careless use of kerosene, gasoline or other flammable fluids, and by carelessness in handling candles, open lights, lamps, open gas jets, torches, etc. Pouring kerosene on wood or coal fires is extremely dangerous. Using gasoline, benzine, naphtha and other flammable liquids in the house for cleaning or similar purposes causes many tragedies each year. These fluids vaporize when exposed to air and may quickly produce an explosive mixture that is readily ignited by a match, pilot light, sparking motor or even a static spark developed from rubbing textiles together. Or the quickly spreading vapor may be exploded by a smoker or a fire in another room. You can never be safe using flammable, explosive fluids in your house -or in filling kerosene or gasoline stoves or lamps while they are lighted. Use only approved portable kerosene heaters, those complying with the Canadian Standards Association standard as tested by an accredited accredited lab: Canadian Standards Association (CSA), Underwriters' Laboratories Laboratories of Canada (ULC) or Wornock Hcrsey Professional Services Ltd. If your clothing catches fire do not run. Running fans the flames and increases them. Lie down on the floor and roll, in a rug if you can. Don't wear fuzzy, filmy, flammable clothing around a stove or range. Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono BILL THOMAS Bill has been a part-time firefighter for almost four years. He is an employee of General Motors. .ceiPo. Presented by 1 King St. W., Bowmanville 623-6622 family trust corporation 29. Gas heaters should be permanently and rigidly attache^ to outlet, with metal piping if possible, and a shut-off valve on metal, not on rubber or flexible tubing. 30. Don't light matches in your closets. Your bathroom 31. Precautions for heaters and electric circuit-epply here. Be careful of possible shock hazard if you touch a mental electric switch, outlet or appliance while you are in bath water or touching water faucet or radiator. Your cellar Clean up your cellar and keep it in order - many fires start in Utter in basement, attic or garage. 32. Fireproof material should be used on walls and ceiling near heating plant. Floor also should be of fireproof material. 33. Pipe entering chimney should fit tightly and have metal collar. Pipé should also be solid and without holes or cracks that would emit sparks. 34. Papers, rubbish and litter anywhere in cellar, especially near furnace, form dangerous hazard. 35. Use metal barrels for ashes; woodeh containers are hazardous. 36 Paints, turpentine and painting materials should not be near furnace. 37. Tightly covered metal containers should be used for paint, oil rags or cleaning cloths. 38. Do not hang laundry near heating plant or electric wires. 39. Door at head of cellar stairs should be of substantial construction, construction, fit tightly, and be kept closed. 40. Do not use open lights, candles or matches in hunting gas leaks; telephone your gas company. Don't use a blowtorch on gas or water pipes. Thaw frozen pipes with warm water, or call plumber. 41. Do not use improper fuses. Overloaded circuits permitted by improper fuses or dangerous substitutes are hazardous. Garages 42. Remove rubbish, litter, old papers. 43. Keep clean -- no oil drippings. 44. Gasoline or other flammable fluids should not be stored. 45. Partitions between attached garage and house should be fire- resistive; door self-closing and raised above floor. Never block door open. 46. Improper, home-made extensions of wires violate electrical code and good practice. 47. Don't smoke in the garage. Attic . 48. Do not let rubbish and litter accumulate irr attic; Remove matches from clothing. 49. Install safe light. Do not use matches or open lights. 50. Do not store flammable liquids, turpentine, paints, lacquers in the attic. Other spots to check 51. Keep roof in good condition to guard against spark fires. 52. Chimneys should extend above highest part of roof and be solidly solidly constructed with flue linings of fire clay or other approved insulating insulating material. 53. Keep heating plant and chimney clean and in good repair so they will not throw off sparks. 54.Soot in chimneys and heaters should be removed annually. 55. Unused flue holes should be safely closed with non-combustible cap, not papered over or left unstopped. 56. Accumulation of dry leaves, rubbish, etc., behind shrubbery, near house and in roof eaves should be cleared away. In building your house 57. Joists should not extend into chimneys. 58. Wall should contain fire-stops at each floor level, at line of eaves and where chimney passes through each floor. 59. If insulating your house use only approved non-combustible material. GO. Fireplaces should be safely insulated. Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono DOUGLAS DELORME Doug has been a part-time firefighter for two years. He is an employee at Oshawa General Hospital. Presented by Not Just Fashions Main Street, Orono Telephone 983-9466 Meet Our Firefighters Station 3 - Orono RON WHITE Ron has been a firefighter for 19 years. . rvcejoofc Presented by Host 1 King St. W., Bowmanville 623-6622 FAMILY TRUST CORPORATION