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Fire Safety: Practice Your Escape Plan

It is Fire Prevention Week (October 8-14). The theme for this year’s Fire Prevention Week is “Practice Your Escape Plan!” Fire is a major concern in all regions of the United States. There are more deaths due to fire than all the natural disasters combined. More than 3,900 persons (including 850 children) are killed in fires every year, and 20,000 are injured.
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Holiday Fire-Safety Tips

Courtesy of FamilyEducation - As the holidays approach, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging people to look for and eliminate potential dangers from holiday lights and decorations that could lead to fires and injuries: Trees, Lights, ecorations, Fireplaces ......
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Keep Your Home Safe From Wildfires

One California wildfire is threatening over 12,000 homes. Other wildfires across the nation are threatening many thousands more homes not to mention the lives of animals and humans living in the wildfire areas. Most of these fires are caused by natural events such as lightening strikes but several of the fires are being blamed on arson. ...
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New Year’s Fire Kills 5 in D.C.

An early-morning fire on New Year’s Day roared through a house in the Northeast district of Washington D.C., killing an elderly male, two other adults, and two children, and leaving a boy aged 11 in critical condition....
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Drunken Residents Set Off Dorm Fires

As college students prepare to go to school for the fall term, federal officials warned students to take measures to protect themselves from fires in student housing, both on- and off-campus. ...
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Practice Fireworks Safety

Independence Day is the holiday that makes the fervor of patriotism burn brighter than ever. Perhaps it is only appropriate that after the parades, the festivities are marked by a fireworks display....
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Fire Safety in Schools and Dorms

If you trust a school to educate your children and to house them you wouldn't want to worry about fire in the dormitories of colleges and boarding school. ...
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Fire Hits Monte Carlo in Las Vegas

A midmorning fire hit the Monte Carlo hotel-casino rooftop, forcing guests and gambling patrons to flee. Emergency personnel said 17 people sustained minor injuries in the confusion, as peopled dodged flaming debris falling down from the rooftop to the Vegas strip below....
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