Effective Fire Prevention Measures in the Home 2

Written by Thomas Yoon


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· Burning of candles, garden refuse, incense, mosquito coils and other open burning - The sources of heat is quite obvious. When we do any open burning, make sure thatrepparttar source of heat is not able to reach other surrounding materials. It is good practice to clearrepparttar 110773 area before doing open burning. We must also think about how to controlrepparttar 110774 fire if it gets too big. Be ready to doserepparttar 110775 fire with water if it gets too big.

We know that we need a source of heat, a fuel, and oxygen in order to have a fire. Other than looking at allrepparttar 110776 places where we encounter sources of heat, it is good preventive practice to store easily combustible materials safely. Some materials do not need a lot of heat in order to ignite, while some materials can be kept at quite high temperatures without any fire occurring. We need to identifyrepparttar 110777 easily combustible materials and keep them out of harms way.

Some materials inrepparttar 110778 home are known to be easily combustible. It is advisable to store these materials in a cool and isolated place away fromrepparttar 110779 house if possible. Should a fire occur by any chance, they will have less opportunity to spread. Below are a list of commonly used inflammable materials inrepparttar 110780 home. However,repparttar 110781 list is not exhaustible:

· Paints, turpentine, spirit, aerosols for spray paints. · Kerosene, petrol, diesel, and other oils used for fuel. · Aerosols used for pesticides · Paper and wood, especially when dry · Vegetable oils used in cooking · Other solvents like nail polish

There are other materials that can catch fire if brought to a source of heat. Some of them are listed below. The best way to handle these is to do regular house cleaning to remove them:

· Loose organic dust like sawdust, cotton dust, woolen dust · Oily deposits fromrepparttar 110782 atmosphere · Dust and deposits from insects

Involving Others

Sometimes, even though we have taken allrepparttar 110783 precautions, fires can still come from a neighbor's house. Sometimes, it can even come from repparttar 110784 sky inrepparttar 110785 form of fireworks! Sometimesrepparttar 110786 sparks from a neighbor's rubbish fire can fly over to your own home and cause a fire.

So it is simply not enough that you alone know how to prevent fires. The people around you should also know about fire prevention.

Everybody needs to be educated in fire prevention. When a fire happens inrepparttar 110787 neighborhood, there is a very real possibility thatrepparttar 110788 fire can spread torepparttar 110789 surrounding houses. It is essential that no fires at all start in any ofrepparttar 110790 houses inrepparttar 110791 neighborhood or evenrepparttar 110792 community.

When everyone understandsrepparttar 110793 grave consequences of their actions,repparttar 110794 fire risk becomes more manageable.

Children are especially high potential fire starters if they are not taught aboutrepparttar 110795 risks. With their natural curiosity, playing with fire comes naturally to them at some point in their life. Adults haverepparttar 110796 responsibility to impartrepparttar 110797 knowledge of fire prevention andrepparttar 110798 consequences of fire to them quite early in their growing up years.

In order for adults to have this knowledge themselves,repparttar 110799 relevant authorities should organize courses on fire safety and fire safety awareness campaigns. The media, including newspapers, magazines, television and radio, has an important role to play in gettingrepparttar 110800 message of fire prevention torepparttar 110801 general public. Their message should be able to reachrepparttar 110802 masses and ingrain in themrepparttar 110803 importance of fire prevention.

The message of fire prevention should be delivered continuously over a long period of time. A fire safety campaign should only be considered successful when people considers fire prevention a natural thing to do. It must become habit and a daily way of life. Then only can lives and properties be secured.

The knowledge of fire prevention is even more important than fire detection and fire fighting. If a fire does not start, or is prevented from starting, there is no longer any need for fire detection and fire fighting. Everybody should be preventing fires even before it can start.

Is prevention enough?

Sometimes, we have donerepparttar 110804 best we can. We have isolatedrepparttar 110805 sources of heat. We have stored away inflammable materials away from sources of heat. We have done whatever we can torepparttar 110806 best of our knowledge.

Can a fire still start?

Incidents of fire can still happen. For example, a mouse in your house may decide to chew on your highly powered electrical wires, or a lizard may managed to crawl into your electrical switchboard and cause a short circuit, orrepparttar 110807 hot weather may causerepparttar 110808 weeds and bushes around your house to catch fire.

So while steps taken forrepparttar 110809 prevention of fires will keep us safe most ofrepparttar 110810 time, it is also good to be prepared in case a fire still starts despite our actions.

There are portable smoke detectors available inrepparttar 110811 market for those who want to have an early warning when a fire starts. This can in fact be considered prevention too - preventing a large fire. These smoke detectors will be able to alertrepparttar 110812 occupants about any small fires so that it can be put off before it becomes large and unmanageable. It can prevent loss of property and lives. Any fires detected early have a very good chance of being extinguished.

It is also good to keep a portable fire extinguisher at home forrepparttar 110813 purpose of putting out small fires. Forrepparttar 110814 home,repparttar 110815 most suitable portable fire extinguisher to keep is a dry powder extinguisher because it will be able to handle allrepparttar 110816 likely classes of fires found inrepparttar 110817 home. It can be used to put out fires involving solid materials like wood and paper, oils and even electrical fires withoutrepparttar 110818 risk of electrical shocks.

In conclusion, when we are able to instill awareness of fire prevention to allrepparttar 110819 people around us, we will have wonrepparttar 110820 battle with fire. Fire becomes our ally and we can tap its benefits without worrying about its consequences.

Fire becomes our friend and not our foe.

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Treasured Keepsakes or Clutter? A Look at Memorabilia

Written by Christine Sutton


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4. Take photographs of your child’s artwork. You can keeprepparttar reminder and get rid ofrepparttar 110772 bulk. Byrepparttar 110773 way, this is a great way to use up those last few pictures on a roll of film.

5. Use polypropylene memorabilia pockets to safely encapsulate and display small items such as ticket stubs, hospital tags or locks of hair.

6. Create a pocket page in your scrapbook album to hold awards, greeting cards, report cards or children’s artwork. To do this you’ll need two pieces of acid-free cardstock sized to fit your album. Cutrepparttar 110774 top off of one piece so that it is three to four inches shorter thanrepparttar 110775 other piece (leavingrepparttar 110776 width as is). Place acid-free adhesive onrepparttar 110777 bottom andrepparttar 110778 two sides and adhererepparttar 110779 shorter piece directly on top ofrepparttar 110780 full-size piece of cardstock. This will provide you with a pocket to hold your assorted memorabilia, and you can embellishrepparttar 110781 front ofrepparttar 110782 pocket as you choose.

Be sure to use acid-free adhesives when mounting memorabilia directly onto your album pages. You can use self-adhesive photo corners or a corner slot punch for those items that you don’t want to permanently mount.

To safeguard your precious keepsakes, practice these “Don’ts”:

Do not use rubber cement, tape or glue, which may contain acid and harmful chemicals that will destroy your photos and memorabilia.

Do not laminate memorabilia. Laminating with common heat-sealing laminating machines permanently traps dust and contaminants in a closed environment. Laminating machines that use heat subject your memorabilia to high heat and strong pressure that can cause it to age more quickly. And, laminating with a heat-sealing laminating machine means thatrepparttar 110783 lamination is irreversible.

Never put newspaper directly into your scrapbook albums. Newspaper is a cheap paper that contains lignin. Have you ever noticed how quickly a newspaper yellows especially if it exposed to sunlight? The yellowing effect isrepparttar 110784 result of lignin. Newspaper also contains acid. Storing photographs and memorabilia with newspaper creates a damaging environment for your keepsakes, asrepparttar 110785 acid will migrate fromrepparttar 110786 newspaper.

If you do not want to create a scrapbook album, you can still enjoy your items inrepparttar 110787 future, by ensuring their safety withrepparttar 110788 use of archival-quality storage supplies such as: acid-free file folders, archival boxes or polypropylene enclosures. (Remember: All supplies for storing and displaying photos or memorabilia should be acid-free, lignin-free, and PVC free!)

If you’ve been feeling guilty because you haven’t organized and protected your family’s keepsakes, then take heart. This accomplishment pales in comparison torepparttar 110789 significance ofrepparttar 110790 journey you embark on each day -- creating joyful memories withrepparttar 110791 people you cherish most in your life.

Copyright 2003-2004, by The Sentimental Playground. Article may be reprinted with permission. Please contact info@organizedphotos.com

Christine Sutton and her business partner, Tracey DuBois, have helped countless people organize, protect, and enjoy their precious photographs. They co-founded www.organizedphotos.com, a website dedicated to helping people find the joy in their photos once again. The website offers a fun approach to photo safety, organizing solutions and a FREE Photo Organizing Idea Kit.


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