Prevent Fires Caused by Cooking
- Consider staying in the kitchen while cooking and watching carefully when children are present. Teach them to know the drill.
- Towels, food packaging and potholders can burn so make a point to keep these and other flammable items away from your stove top and oven.
- There is less chance of an accident if you avoid cooking in loosely fitted clothing. Remember when cooking to roll up your sleeves.
- Learn from the experts how to put out a small pan fire by turning off the burner and quickly sliding a lid over the flames, or smothering it with baking soda.
- Unattended barbeque grills can be dangerous. Children need supervision any time they are around a burning grill.
- Fire experts remind us to keep grills at least three feet away from the house, plants and other objects and avoid cooking under eaves or low hanging branches.
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