Consumer Reports says protecting your family begins with a safety audit at home.
Other fire hazards include candles, fireplaces with uncleaned chimneys, and space heaters.
If you have an outlet that doesn’t grip the plug, it’s time to change it. Replace your worn-out outlets with an arc-fault circuit interrupter, also known as an AFCI outlet.And always have an extinguisher and a garden hose at the ready. “Smoke, like white smoke billowing out of the dryer area. So, smoke had just fallen so fast. I noticed that it doesn’t really hover at the top, but kind of goes all over the place. But it just went so fast, it boggles my mind at how fast it goes,” Glinsek said.
And if you choose to draw a map of your home indicating all possible exits, that’s great, but it’s still important to do dry runs – where everyone in the household rehearses escaping – and meeting up in a safe, predesignated spot.
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