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Home Safety Tip

Home safety tip and fire

Fire kills an average of 5500 Americans each year and injures another 300,00. This is a huge amount of people and those numbers are enough to scare anyone. Hopefully they will scare you enough to use as many home safety tips as you can find. Out of all these injuries and deaths, many could have been prevented with a simple home safety tip or two. Although many a home safety tip may seem arbitrary at first, they can really help save a life. Knowing more about the dangers around you and in your home can help to insure home safety.

The major causes of fires in the home are:

Smoking
Incendiary or suspicious
Heating
Child play
Electrical distribution
Cooking
Other causes

We have listed these in the order of the most common cause to the least common cause. It is immediately obvious that the number one cause of fires could easily be prevented with home safety tip #1- NEVER smoke in the house! This is probably the most important home safety tip that seemingly few people seem to pay much heed to. Most people think that because it is only a cigarette that the flame is under their control. But, it can quickly get out of control. Make sure that this fire safety tip is strictly adhered to in your house. Do not allow anyone to light up within the confines of your home.

Smoke does the most damage to people

The leading cause of death in a fire is actually asphyxiation, not burns from the fire itself. The fire consumes the oxygen in the air and therefore increasing the amounts of carbon monoxide, which results in a loss of consciousness or death within a few short minutes. Amazingly, victims of fire rarely even see the flames. Be aware and follow every home safety tip and look at more of our pages to find out more fire safety tips.

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