The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority offers several tips with the change of weather as people turn on furnaces, use fireplaces and wood stoves and endure power outages.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Heating safety:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n 1. Have furnaces, wood burning stoves, and fire places inspected by a professional to ensure they are clean and in good working order.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 2. Move all flammable materials at least three feet away from baseboard or electric heaters. This includes clothing, bedding material, and drapes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 3. Place ashes from a fireplace or stove in a metal container with a tightly sealed lid. Outdoors, away from flammable materials.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 4. Always have working smoke alarms. Have one in each bedroom, in the hallway outside the bedrooms, near the kitchen, and at least one on each floor of your home.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Power outages:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n 1. Beware of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO). This deadly gas is a by-product of incomplete burning and is produced by common household devices such as your barbecue and gas powered electric generator. Never bring these CO producing items into your home.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 2. Install a carbon monoxide detector in your home for year around safety.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 3. Use candles sparingly. Never leave burning candles unattended. When you go out \u2013 blow it out.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 4. Place candles in sturdy non-tipping bases and away from flammable materials. Keep pets and children away from burning candles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Be prepared:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n 1. Be ready by preparing for 3 Days \u2013 3 Ways. Make a plan for your family in the event of a disaster; Build a kit to provide necessary items for a minimum of three days; Get involved by registering for Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 2. Keep tire chains, extra clothing, food\/water in your vehicles. Always refill the fuel tank when it reaches three-quarters of a tank.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 3. Survey your property and look for any trees, branches, or other objects that may pose a hazard to your home during a windstorm. Have trees and branches removed professionally.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Remember, when you change your clock on Nov. 3 and \u201cfall back\u201d one hour, change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms as well. Fire officials also advise to replace your smoke alarms every 10 years.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority offers several tips with the change of weather as people turn on furnaces, use fireplaces and wood stoves and endure power outages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16864"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}