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Wednesday, October 9, 2013 Omineca Express
PREVENTION WEEK VANDERHOOF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Fire Chief Joe Pacheco
Lt. Neal Wiebe
Capt. Jay Bangs
Dept Chief Ian Leslie
Lt. Hunter Omeara
FF Travis Emel
Capt. Brian Cross
Lt. Dave Moore
Safety Will Van den Born
FF Norm Smith
FF John Baker
FF Carl Larsen
Training Larry Bangs
FF Craig Smith
2013 Fire Prevention Week is all about preventing kitchen fires. Thirty-three percent of all fires in BC start in the kitchen. In fact, more fires start in the kitchen than in any other room of the house. Stay in the kitchen when you are frying, grilling, broiling of boiling food. * If you must leave the kitchen, even for a short time, turn off the stove. * When you are simmering, baking, or roasting food, check it regularly, stay home and use a timer to remind yourself. * If you have young children, use the stove’s back burners whenever possible. Keep children and pets at least three feet away from the stove * When you cook, wear clothing with tight-fitting sleeves. * Keep potholders, oven mitts, wooden utensils, paper or plastic bags, towels or anything else that can burn away from your stovetop. * Clean up food and grease from the burners, stovetops and the oven. * Don’t store combustibles in drawer below the oven. Home Fires * In 2011, U.S. fire departments responded to 370,000 home structure fires. These fires caused 13,910 civilian injuries, 2,520 civilian deaths, $6.9 billion in direct damage. * On average, seven people die in U.S. home fires per day. * Cooking is the leading cause home fires and home fire injuries, followed heating equipment. Smoking is a leading cause of civilian home fire deaths. * Most fatal fires kill one or two people. In 2011, 12 home fires killed five or more people resulting in a total of 67 deaths.
Cooking * U.S. Fire Departments responded to an estimated annual average of 156,600 cooking-related fires between 2007-2011, resulting in 400 civilian deaths, 5,080 civilian injuries and $853 million in direct damage.
* Two of every five home fires start in the kitchen. * Unattended cooking was a factor in 34% of reported home cooking fires. * Two-thirds of home cooking fires started with ignition of food or other cooking materials. * Ranges accounted for the 58%
Thank you to all our dedicated and hard working Volunteer Firemen
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of home cooking fire incidents. Ovens accounted for 16%. * Children under five face a higher risk of non-fire burns associated with cooking than being burned in a cooking fire. * Microwave ovens are one of the leading home products associated with scald burn injuries not related
to fires. Nearly half (44%) of the microwave oven injuries seen at emergency rooms in 2011 were scald burns. * Clothing was the item first ignited in less than 1% of home cooking fires, but these incidents accounted for 16% of the cooking fire deaths.
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