Home fire safety first of all
We have to admit that fires may be very dangerous, so we need to be very careful about fires.
Home fire safety first of all
Home fire safety first of all
Dear readers, there are times in our lives when something dreadful
happens and suddenly we become aware that we could have prevented that dreadful
happening, if we had been more careful, or if we would have planned in advance
things that could have prevented that; so, sometimes we might even blame
ourselves for what has happened. We are writing about this today, because there
was a fire in a nearby street and although the house was badly damaged the
occupant were lucky enough to run out of this house in time, even though they
lost all their belongings, so this makes me think about what could have been
done to prevent this fire, or to plan what should one do in case of fire; well
this is not easy to answer, but let us look at the many aspect that could help.
So we should make this a priority and believe that to prevent home fire
or any type of fire that puts in danger people and property is very important,
we all ask questions after some tragic event happens, where properties are
burned out and sometimes even loss of life happens; the worse part of it all is
that it could have been prevented, of course these event become more painful
and sad when people die; but these things happen only because people did not
know enough how to prevent the fire, and also because they did not have a plan
how to escape it, so, they became trapped and perished, we are going to say
something about how we could avoid being trapped.
You see, if everybody of us is able to contribute some of our life
accumulated knowledge how to avoid the worst part of these tragic events, then
that person has done his best and this is what I am trying to do here. I hate
to say that when we hear news like these we think that something is very wrong there,
there should have been a way to prevent these tragic happenings.
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, there was this fire in the street where we live, in the
street where we live there have been other fire 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, which is an
eye sore in the street, we hope that the owners will soon do something about it
and sell it, or build something new, because we are sick and tired to see this
very unpleasant views of it.
Recently there has been another fire not far from it, but this time the
owners managed to escape unhurt, at least this is the good news of this other
house fire. Anyhow I am writing this article also to say my views, and in a
small way say something that could help prevent a tragedy. So if you read this
entire article, you will see my point of views how to leave a way to escape in
case of fire. So let us discuss what could be done, because I believe that we
need home fire safety first of all.
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Home fire safety first of all
I believe that it is always the same, as soon as something dreadful happens in our lives and there is loss of property or even life, we start asking ourselves whether we have done the right things and whether that tragedy could have been avoided, but then it is usually too late for whatever has already happened. We should be looking after ourselves and our own lives 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 should look where these dangers may come from and plan to avoid them whenever and wherever possible.
We would like to bring to our reader’s
attention, that what is going to be written in this article is what has
happened recently at the time when this article was written for the first time
and that should be kept in mind while reading this article and a few other
things that have happened in those times.
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 suddenly can become very dangerous and life threatening,
so we have to guard ourselves from these dangerous two elements and also from
other dangers. Today we cannot help thinking about what has just happened in
Arizona USA.
You see while I was about to edit my hub
about fire safety that I wrote 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. In
order 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 would remember this tragedy and be more
careful if we have to light a fire in the open in the future. I am saying this
not because this fire was started from an open fire, since it is believed that
it was started from a lightning; however we should not light fires in the open
when it is very hot and dry, as these tragedies can happen very fast when it is
hot, as it was the case when this event has happened.
Here-under are some links that tell us about
this tragic fire:
01 Jul 2013
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 would like to go back to what we had already written before about
fire safety and other dangers that we are exposed to during our lives.
Other dangerous things
Other dangerous things
As we all know during our lives we are
exposed to dangers that sometimes may even kill us, anyhow, today there are a
couple of dangers that come to our mind more often than the others, because
they are very often on the news, apart from the fires in the houses, there
could be also other fires that could be prevented, one of these is when people
go out drinking and then they drive when drunk, of course very often on the way
home or wherever they are going 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 may 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, just because this seems to happen very often and seems to
be on the news more than other dangerous behaviours; but as we all know there
are other things that may endanger our lives, just because we don’t pay much
attention to what is happening around us so to speak, but the fire is one
danger that we really should try to avoid, it is too dangerous.
Therefore, whatever we do and wherever we go
we should look after our own safety first of all, it is not going to do us any
good if something happens to us and we try to blame somebody else for what has
happened to us, we really should try to do our best to prevent anything bad
happening to us, we should also 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 whatever they are should be looked at and we
should be careful when we come close to these dangers. Just to mention another
danger that some of us might not thing about, let me show you what just
happened a few days ago not far from where I am living when a house caught
fire, and then see if there is anything that can be done to minimize the danger
of our own lives, since we might find ourselves easily in the same position one
day, as we all live in houses and sometimes houses can catch fire and burn and
just like the occupant of the car, people can also die in a house fire, but
there are things that can be done to avoid that, or at least minimize the loss
of life.
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Fire safety first in wooden houses
In this article here we will be talking about
the importance of fire safety first in the houses and particularly in wooden
houses, because they can catch fire and burn more quickly 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 also, what else can be done to
make it safer for the occupants to escape?
Dear readers, as I said, what has prompted to
write this hub is what has just happened last night, at a house just a few
doors from my daughter house; therefore, this has prompted me to write about
this fire safety issue, so, let me write this new short article about the extra
dangers that we as the occupant face in these wooden houses, because it is
easier for them to burn down and they burn down a lot quicker than a solid
brick and concrete building, even though they can also burn down also, but not
as quickly as the timber houses. Somehow we don’t know yet the reason but this
house burned down, at the moment it may sound as if 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 occupant face when we live
in these wooden houses.
Therefore at this point of time one may want
to ask; what can be done to avoid or minimise the danger of fires? I am sure
that we all would like to know what is the best way to do that, so that we
would be ready to avoid this fire danger the best way possible; you see, this
is what I am trying to explain next in my own personal ways; since I believe
that I might have one thing or two to say that could help, even if it is in a
small way. First of all, let us try to stay alert and therefore aware of the
danger of fire in these wooden houses, since they burn very quickly, we need
also 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?
How to minimize the fire danger
Therefore, let us see, what we could and
should do to minimize the fire danger?
When the fire takes hold and burn fiercely, it is very hard to do anything.
Today we all talk about that fire alarms may
save life and in fact they do save lives; therefore we all have to understand
that we must at least have a system for fire alarms, even if it might consists
of one single fire alarm: but that is not all, as there are a lot of other
things that one can do, so, let us take a look at what can be done to prevent
the building catching fire, but at the same time and above all let us find a
way how to avoid loss of life, which is really a tragedy that most times could
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 many 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 usually 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,
because there are other things that have taken its place, therefore our
awareness of its dangers has become a bit dull so to speak, therefore we seem
to be 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 other sorts of heater to warm the place up, some of these heaters
are or might be a fire hazard and really we should not use those heater that
can cause a fire, but if we have to use them, then we should really monitor
them constantly until the day that we are able to replace them with another
type of heather that is safer. But as we all know or at least we have heard all
electric devise can become a fire hazard, so when we are not using them we
should turn them off properly. 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 might 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 sometimes 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.
As I have just said, sometimes the only wise
thing to do is to run away from the fire if you are in danger, so this question
arises, how can we do that easily and safely when we happen to be inside and
all the doors are locked?
Here I have to say that I am writing this
explanation in this hub in order to say that we need to set everything in a way
that it is easy for us to escape the fire, since not many people seems to point
out this particular danger; I believe that sometimes people make mistakes when
they want their houses safe from break in, because they overdo it, so, they may
be able to 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 very hard to get in or out of the house.
This is a dangerous mistake that could easily
cost people lives and it can be prevented, if we plan it the right way in
advance properly. Therefore before we start putting safety bars to all windows
and doors, we should use our common sense and realize that if people cannot get
in also people cannot get out, I hope now you see what I mean and this is where
the danger is.
Look, how many times we have heard that some
people have lost their lives in the fire when their house burned down and this
is one of the most horrible scenario when some of them are trapped inside a
room and they are crying out for help, but nobody can help them quickly enough
to get them out, because all their windows have safety bars on them.
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 first of all how to set everything up in the first place and make sure
above all that you have a way out in case of fire, and then you can go ahead
and do what you have to do to make your house safe. I am sure that now 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?
So, what else can be done to minimise the
fire dangers for the occupants?
To minimize the fire danger for the occupants
it is not as easy as it sounds and every house is also different, so there
cannot be an easy answer that is the same for every house; therefore everybody
is going to work out what could 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 and you are worried that one day somebody will
break in, or just walk in without you even knowing it, because in summer when
it is hot the windows are usually 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 only safely,
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 one 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 also that you should not install any sort of 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.
I am planning to add more articles if and
when I can think of another one, about ways of how we can set or make things
for fire safety reasons in our homes. See you soon.
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Anyhow, first of all try to 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 are able to help.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
I believe we have said enough in this article, so, see you in our next article about buildings.
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