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| Spokane Fire - Media Release |
Thursday September 9 - 7:01 AM |
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| 11/25/2009 |
44 W. Riverside |
Jan Doherty/Public Education Officer |
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| Spokane Fire Department wants to wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration with family and friends! We also wants to remind the community that unattended cooking is not only the #1 cause of home fires throughout the year but that Thanksgiving Day is the #1 day for cooking-caused fires.
The Washington State Fire Marshal offers the following cooking fire safety tips to help you and your family have a safe and happy Thanksgiving:
• Start holiday cooking with a clean stove and oven. Remove any buildup of grease that may be on the surface of the appliance. Keep a lid cover handy to quickly smother a small grease fire.
• Use the back burners whenever possible. Keep pot handles turned in order to avoid accidental bumping or spills.
• Have a fire extinguisher available not more than 10 feet from the stove, on the exit side of the cooking area. A 2-1/2 lb. class ABC multi-purpose dry chemical extinguisher is recommended.
• Never leave cooking unattended. Keep the kitchen off-limits to children and adults that are not helping with food preparations to lessen the possibility of kitchen mishaps.
• When cooking, do not wear clothing with loose sleeves or dangling jewelry. The clothing can easily catch on fire and the jewelry can catch on pot handles, causing spills and burns.
• Keep Thanksgiving decorations and kitchen clutter away from sources of heat such as stovetops, candles and other open flames.
Make sure your family is protected with both ionization and photoelectric smoke detectors throughout your home. Most homes today just have the ionization type and they may fail to alarm in time when there is a smoldering fire.
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Spokane Fire Department  44 West Riverside Ave Spokane WA, 99201 (509) 625-7002 |
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