Colder Weather Safety Tips

• Have a working 10-year smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detector  on every level of your home and in every bedroom.
• Design and practice an escape drill from your home.  Identify 2 ways out of every room and a safe meeting place outside.  Practice your plan, at least twice a year, when you test your smoke alarms on the first day of every month.  Sadly many residential fire related fatalities involve our senior and our youngest family members.  Often this is due to mobility challenges and not knowing what to do in an emergency.  Plan and Practice escape drills.
• As we transition into colder weather and less daylight, use space heaters safely providing a safety area of 3-feet from anything that can burn and never leave space heaters or candles burning unattended.
• Now is a good time to call a HVAC Technician to have them check your heating system and have your fireplace and chimney cleaned and inspected.