Pet Fire Safety

7/28/2021 (Permalink)

Don't forget about your pets when you are making your fire evacuation plan.

Fires are devastating, losing a pet is just awful! The best way to protect your pets is to include them in your fire evacuation plan. 

Keep pets near entrances when you are not home, collars on, and leashes ready in case firefighters need to rescue them.

Secure Young Pets…keep them away from potential fire-starting hazards.

Use a pet Window Cling that lets local rescuers know you have pets, and if needed they can try to find and locate them.

Pets left alone can’t escape a burning home. Consider using smoke detectors that are connected to a monitor.  

Pets are actually responsible for starting over 1,000 fires each year and over 500,000 pets are affected annually by fires.

A few tips for your pet from starting a fire

• Get rid of stove knobs
  • The most common way pets start a fire
• Put out open flames
  • Pets are naturally curious and drawn to open flames
• Use flameless candles
  • Pets can easily knock down candles when running or agitated.
• Secure the fireplace
  • Even with a mesh screen in front of your fireplace, a small spark or coal can land on carpet or pets’ hair. Don’t allow your pet to lay in front of the fireplace.

If you have a fire disaster,  let us help you take back control and help you clean, restore, and deodorize your home and belongings. Our goal is to help make it…Like it never even happened.

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