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Welcome to our article, Fire safety first of all.
Dear readers, the reason, we are writing about this fire safety first today, it is because there has been a fire in the street where I live. The house was badly damaged by fire, but the occupants were lucky enough to run out of this house, even though they lost all their personal belongings. So, this makes me think about what could have been done to prevent this fire, and what should we do in case of fire. So, let us look at what can help us escape.
I believe that, we should make preventing home fires a priority, or
any type of fire that puts in danger people and property. You see, we ask
questions after tragic events have happened, when properties are burned down,
and sometimes even loss of life happens. The painful part is that it
could have been prevented. Of course, these events become more painful and sad
when people die; but these things happen, because most times people do not have
a plan how to escape the fire, so, they can become trapped and perish. We are
going to say something about how we can avoid being trapped in a house fire, if
we plan these safety things properly.
Now what made me write this article here for the first time, it is that I have witnessed a few fires during my life, including the fire that has happened recently, in the street where we live there have been other fires years ago, and an old man died in the fire and it was very sad. What happened then made the owners demolish the house and for a few years we have this vacant block of land.
Anyhow, I am writing this article to say my views, and say something that could prevent a tragedy. So, if you read this article, you will see my point of views how to leave a way to escape in
case of fire.
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Home fire safety and other things.
We want to talk about home fire safety
because, I believe that if we plan ahead tragedies can be avoided, you see, we must
look after ourselves with all our personal faculties, because we are constantly
exposed to many dangers including fire, some of these dangers may result in
being hurt or even death. Therefore, we must look where these dangers can come
from and plan how to avoid them.
In our lives one of the main dangers is fire
and water, in facts there are sayings in many languages; God help us from water
and fire! You see these two elements that are so friendly when they are in the
right proportion, they can be very dangerous and life threatening, so, we must
guard ourselves from these dangerous two elements. Today while I am editing
this article, I cannot help thinking about what has just happened in Arizona and Colorado USA.
You see, while I was editing my article about
fire safety, which I have written a while ago, I heard the sad news and I felt
so sorry for the loss of life that this fire has caused; there are no words to
describe the sad fact that 19 people have lost their lives, while they were
doing their best to control this fire in the country of Arizona USA. Our
thoughts of sympathy and our prayers go to their families and all those people
that are closely involved.
This tragic event goes to prove that fires
are very dangerous, even to the fire experts that have been trained to control
the fires. So, we need to be very careful about fire safety throughout our
lives. To give our readers some ideas of what this fire was like, I am going to
post some links in this article, so that we will be able to have a record of
what has happened, in the hope that we remember this tragedy and be more
careful next time, if we have to light a fire in the open in the future,
because they can become out of control.
Here-under are some links that tell us about
this tragic fire:
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Obama hails 'heroic' firefighters
killed by blaze
01 Jul 2013
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One dead in brutal heatwave sweeping
America's southwest
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America bakes as temperatures
approach world record
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Arizona battles deadly wildfire
01 Jul 2013
I hope that these links above work for you,
today and in the future, so that they would remind us of these sad facts about
dangerous fires. Of course there are many other fire accidents happening in the
world even as we speak, but it is not our intention to report them here,
because we want to talk about fire safety and other dangers that we are exposed
during our lives.
Other dangerous things that we should think about.
Anyhow, today there are a couple of dangers
that come to our mind more often than the others, because they are often
on the news, apart from the fires in the houses, there can be other fires that
can be prevented, one of these is when people go out drinking and then they
drive when drunk, of course, very often on the way they cause an accident, they
smash their car and perhaps get hurt; if they cause a major accident not only
they can get hurt, but they can also cause damage, injury or death to other
people and when the accident is severe the car can even catch fire and the
occupants can die in the burning car, which is really a terrible way to die.
Now that I have written about the dangers of driving when drunk, because this seems to happen very often, and is on the news more than other dangerous behaviors; but there are other things that may endanger our lives, but the fire is one danger that we really should try to avoid, it is too dangerous.
Therefore, whatever we do, we should look
after our own safety, it is not going to do us any good if something happens to
us, and then, we try to blame somebody else for what has happened to us, we must
do our best to prevent anything bad happening to us, we should be alert all the
time if possible, and anything suspicious should be checked out as soon as
possible. Of course, there are things that we cannot control, and we must be
careful, when we come close to these dangers. but there are things that can be
done to minimize the loss of life that can
occur.
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Think fire safety first in wooden
houses.
In this article, we want to talk about the importance of fire
safety in wooden houses, because they can catch fire and burn quicker than
houses built with bricks and cement. Therefore, we should ask ourselves, what
should we do to minimize the danger for the house occupants? And, what else can
be done to make it safer for the occupants to escape?
So, let me write about the extra dangers,
that we as the occupant of these wooden houses face when they burn, because it
is easier for them to burn down, and they burn down a lot quicker than a solid
brick and concrete building. Now, we don’t know yet the reason, why this house
that we are talking about has burned down, but it looks like there was an
electrical fault that started the fire, but really nobody knows yet, if this
was the reason. Anyhow this is the extra danger that we as the house occupant
face, when we live in these wooden houses.
Therefore, at this point of time we may want
to ask; what can be done to minimize this danger of fires? Now, this is what I
am going to try to explain next, in my own personal ways; since I believe that
I have one thing or two to say that can help. First,
let us be aware of the danger of fire in these wooden houses, since they burn
very quickly, so, we need to plan what to do to avoid the risks involved, or what
should we do to minimize the dangers?
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What should we do to minimize the danger.
Today we talk about that fire alarms save lives
and in fact they do save lives; therefore, we must at least have a system for
fire alarms, even if it consists of one single fire alarm: but that is not all,
as there are a lot of other things that we can do, so, let us take a look at
what can be done to prevent the building catching fire, but above all, let us
find a way how to avoid loss of life, which is really a tragedy that can be
prevented, if everything is planed the right way.
You see, there are many fire hazards in our
houses these days, in fact, there are more fire hazards today than have been in
the past. In the past the fire hazard was present only when we had to have a
fire going, but we were there to mind the fire and use the fire to our
advantage, and we were very much aware of its danger, because we used fire
constantly. Today we don’t use the fire as much as we did in the past,
therefore, our awareness of its dangers has become dull, we are less careful
about fire hazards, but let us have a look where these fire dangers might be
hidden.
Today when it is cold, instead of lighting a
fire we have electric heaters to warm the place up, some of these heaters are a
fire hazard, and we should not use those heater that can cause a fire, but if
we have to use them, then we must monitor them constantly until the day that we
can replace them with another type of heather that is safer. But as we know all
electric devise can become a fire hazard, so, when we are not monitoring them,
we must turn them off. For instance, when we go out, we should make sure that
everything is turned off properly and above all when we go to bed, we must turn
them off, just in case they can start a fire.
Now, what I have said above, is only a way
for preventing the fire to start, and then burn the house down, but no matter
how careful we are a fire can get started for many reasons, for instance when
an electrical fault starts the fire; so, we have to be ready even for that and
work out a way how to avoid this fire danger, even if we have to run away from
the fire, if we are in danger, since this might be the only wise thing to do.
But how can we do that easily and safely when we happen to be inside, and all
the doors are locked?
Here I am writing this explanation, because I
want to say that we need to set everything in a way, that will make it is easy
for us to escape the fire, but not many people see this danger. Anyhow, I
believe that sometimes people make mistakes when they want their houses safe
from break in, because they overdo it, so, they can make their house safe from
break in, but in doing so, they put their lives at risk from the fire, because
they put safety bars to all windows and doors, when this is done it becomes
hard to get in or out of the house.
This is a dangerous mistake, which can cost
people lives and it can be prevented, if we plan it the right way in advance. Therefore,
before we start putting safety bars to all windows and doors, we must use our
common sense, and realize that if people cannot get in, people also cannot get
out, I hope now you see what I mean, because this is where the danger of being
trapped is.
This is what I want to say; whatever you do
for safety reasons to prevent unwanted people coming into your house do not
overdo it, because it is not worth the risk and you can lose your life. So,
think how to set everything up that leaves you a way out in case of fire, and
then you can go ahead and do what you must do, to make your house safe. I am
sure that you are going to ask, how can we achieve that? So, let us see what
else can be done for safety reasons.
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What else can we do?
To minimize the fire danger for the occupants it is not as easy as it sounds. Because every house is different, therefore, every house should be treated in a different way, therefore, everybody is going to work out what can be done in their own case, but let us suppose this scenario to start with:
So, let us assume that at your house you have
a room that has two windows, you are worried that one day somebody will break
in, or walk in without you even knowing it, because in summer, when it is hot
the windows are open, and because they are low it is easy for a fit person to
get in; so, you are thinking to set safety bars to secure your house.
Okay, it is a very good idea to put safety
bars to the windows to secure your house from thieves, but by putting safety
bars to all your windows and doors, not only it will stop people getting in, it
will also stop people getting out, and if there is a fire you are trapped.
Therefore, in my opinion you can set safety bars to one window, which you can
keep it open all the time if you want, as nobody can get in your house since
there are safety bars, the other window you may have to think of doing
something else, perhaps you can put safety bars on inches that can manually be
opened from the inside, or put in an extra bolts, or whatever it may be needed
to make it secure, but whatever you do you should keep in mind that you must be
able to open this window manually and easily from the inside.
When we talk about opening a window or door
manually, we mean that you should not install any locks that require a key to open
manually, everything must be there in place already and you can open this
window easily just by using your hands, therefore, you can use this window or
door to escape the fire. This also goes for all the rest of the house, you must
leave a way out in each room if possible that you manually can open from the
inside, and therefore, be able to escape the fire. I hope that I have explained
myself clear enough about what I believe needs to be done.
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Anyhow,
in case of fire, first put yourself out of danger, then call the emergency
number of your country, if in Australia it is, 000, or call any other authority
that can help.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
I believe we have
said enough in this article, so, see you in our next article.
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