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Safety and prevention content about smoke alarms, fire escape plans, and home fire sprinklers.
Messages to help you increase awareness about on- and off-campus fire safety.
Fire safety and prevention content to share with older adults and caregivers for older adults and children.
Safety and prevention content about cooking fire safety.
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Messages to share about fireplaces, space heaters and wood stoves.
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Fire safety and prevention content to share for holidays throughout the year.
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Content to help you increase awareness about fire safety for people with disabilities.
Messages about fire safety during and after severe weather.
Fire safety content to share with smokers and people who live with smokers.
Fire deaths can be reduced by teaching people the basic facts about fire. Below are some simple messages to help you explain the characteristics of fire to community members on social media.
In less than 30 seconds a small flame can get completely out of control and turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a home. In minutes, a home can be engulfed in flames. If you wake up to a fire, you won't have time to grab valuables because fire spreads too quickly and the smoke is too thick. There is only time to escape.
A fire's heat alone can kill. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 F at floor level and rise to over 1,000 F at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs. This heat can melt clothes to your skin. In five minutes a room can get so hot that everything in it ignites at once: this is called flashover.
Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness. If you wake up to a fire you may be blinded, disoriented and unable to find your way around the home you've lived in for years.
Fire uses up the oxygen you need and produces smoke and poisonous gases that kill. Breathing even small amounts of smoke and toxic gases can make you drowsy, disoriented and short of breath. The odorless, colorless fumes can lull you into a deep sleep before the flames reach your door. You may not wake up in time to escape.
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