Do you test your smoke detectors monthly? Also, please change the batteries in them at least once a year!
Smoke detectors that are over Ten years old need to be replaced.
FIRE PREVENTION
Fire Companies must be capable of responding to not only fire alarms, but must also be ready to deal with hazardous material incidents, public service details, and to serve as a community's primary source of trained professionals along with the resources for emergency response should the community be stricken by a natural or man-made disaster.
However, the main objective of a fire department is to educate the public in both fire and life safety matters in an effort to reduce property loss, penal injury, and life lost by fire or unsafe environments.
The Summit Hose Volunteer Fire Company does and remains steadfastly committed to this philosophy. A provider of emergency services and fire education to all that ask.
For ALL Emergencies!
Fire Extinguisher Training
Interested in a fire prevention talk or fire extinguisher training for your group? Call us at 724-224-4898 and leave a message.
Fire Prevention Education
An estimated 62,000 home fires were attributed to heating equipment in 2005, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). The cost of these fires, as we have learned, goes far beyond just money and property damage. The cost also includes roughly 700 lives and roughly 1,500 injuries.
While home heating fires are quite prevalent, they are largely preventable. We are encouraging you to not let this tragedy happen to you. With your help, we can reduce the number of home heating fires .
Here are just a few simple ways you can decrease the risk of a heating fire in your home:
•Space heaters need space. Keep all things that can burn, such as paper, bedding or furniture, at least 3 feet away from heating equipment.
•Turn portable heaters off when you go to bed or leave the room.
•Plug power cords only into outlets with sufficient capacity and never into an extension cord.
•Have your chimney inspected each year and cleaned if necessary.
•Use a sturdy fireplace screen.
•Allow ashes to cool before disposing. Dispose of ashes in a metal container.
•Install smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on every level of the home. For the best protection interconnect all smoke alarms throughout the home – when one sounds, they all sound. Test smoke alarms at least once a month.
•Install and maintain a carbon monoxide alarm in a central location outside each sleeping area.
Space heaters need space. Keep all things that can burn, such as paper, bedding or furniture, at least 3 feet away from heating equipment.
