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Fire Safety Tips To Keep Your Kitchen Cooking All Year

Home-cooked meals can bring people together, build joyful memories, and create opportunities to share stories. While cooking may seem like a routine activity, it can be dangerous. With the second week of October being Fire Safety Week, it’s a great time to talk about fire safety while cooking.

Cooking is the leading cause of fires in homes, accounting for 49% of all fires. It’s also the leading cause of fire-related injuries at 41%.

Fortunately, with a little bit of attention to care and a little extra preparedness, you can prevent fire damage and injury from cooking. Let’s take a look at a few tips that could help you prevent a fire in your kitchen while you’re cooking.

Safely enjoying a firepit outdoors

6 Tips To Safely Enjoy Fire Pits And Outdoor Heaters At Home

Crisp air, pumpkins, fresh-picked apples, and the roaring flames of a fire pit at home are sure signs of fall. With warm days and cool nights, it’s only natural to want to spend time outside at home enjoying an evening under an outdoor heater or next to a fire pit.
While many people are comfortable around it, it’s important to remember that fires and open flames are still dangerous and can act unpredictably.
We put together a few tips to help keep you (and your home) safe from disaster while you enjoy all this season has to offer.

Woman puting out kitchen fire with fire extinguisher

The Right Way To Put Out Different Types Of Fires

With any luck, most of us don’t have to deal with extinguishing a fire on a daily basis. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be prepared to!

Fighting a fire is a stressful and overwhelming act, so try to plan ahead with the right kind of extinguisher to limit the danger to yourself, your loved ones, and your home.

Let’s look at the five different types of fires that can happen and the correct way to extinguish them.

Why Smoke Alarms And Carbon Monoxide Detectors Are So Important

Fire safety is important all year, but it’s even more critical as we head into the colder months of the year.

Early detection remains the best defense for homeowners when it comes to staying safe and preventing injuries or death from smoke, fire, and carbon monoxide.

Let’s break down what you can listen for (and actions you can take) to give yourself the edge in fire safety.

Being safe when grilling is important to protect your family and property. Here are grilling safety tips from Paul Davis of Northeast Indiana.

How To Grill Safely And Prevent Home Fires

It’s no secret that Midwesterners love to grill — and many of us grill year-round! But there’s a right way and a wrong way to go about grilling safely, especially if you want to prevent your home from catching fire. Here’s what you need to keep in mind to grill safely this summer and prevent a fire in your home.

Avoid 10 Common Fire Safety Violations in Commercial Buildings

Sparked in an overstuffed rag bin, the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in New York City killed 145 workers in just 18 minutes. Multiple factors led to one of the deadliest business disasters in history – among them, firefighting ladders could not reach the eighth-floor blaze – but the building itself… Read more »

How to Update Your Family Emergency Plan

How to Update Your Family Emergency Plan

If a house fire or natural disaster happened tomorrow, would you and your family know what steps to take? Do you have a plan for how to act? If so, when was the last time you updated your plan? One of the best things you can do for your family… Read more »