Keeping Your Community Safe with Home Fire Escape Planning
NFPA’s tool kit on home fire escape planning includes everything you’ll need to help residents in your community make and practice a home fire escape plan. Fire can spread quickly throughout a home, leaving as little as two minutes to escape safely once the smoke alarm sounds. Making a home fire escape plan and practicing a home fire escape drill are important elements of home fire safety. |
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Keep Your Community Safe with Home Fire Sprinklers
NFPA's tool kit on home fire sprinklers includes everything you'll need to educated the public about their tremendous overall value. There's no doubt that residential fire sprinklers represent the next generation in home fire safety. As an established technology with a solid track record for protecting people and property, more widespread installation of home fire sprinklers will play the lead role in further protecting the public from fire in the years to come.
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Keeping Your Community Cooking Safely
NFPA's tool kit on cooking safety includes everything you need to help you launch a cooking safely campaign in your community. People in the United States are most likely to experience a fire in their home than anywhere else. According to the latest NFPA research, cooking is the leading cause of home fires. Two out of five home fires begins in the kitchen - more than any other place in the home. |
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Keeping Your Community Safe and Sound
NFPA’s tool kit on smoke alarms includes everything you’ll need to motivate residents to install and maintain smoke alarms in the home. Smoke alarms that are properly installed and maintained cut the chances of dying in a reported fire in half. Almost two-thirds of home fire deaths result from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarm. Working smoke alarms are a proven technology to provide early warning to give residents time to escape. |
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Keeping Your Community Safe and Energized
NFPA's tool kit on electrical safety includes everything you'll need to teach the residents of your community about electrical safety in the home. Electrical failure or malfunction was involved in 46,500 reported home structure fires in 2010. These fires resulted in 420 civilian deaths and 1,520 civilian injuries, with $1.5 billion in direct property damage. Electricity is safe to have in the home if it is treated with respect. |
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Keeping Your Community Safe and Warm
NFPA’s tool kit on heating equipment safety includes everything you’ll need to teach the residents of your community how to heat their homes safely. Heating equipment is one of the leading causes of home fires during the winter months. On average, NFPA research shows that heating equipment is involved in more than 60,000 reported U.S. home structure fires per year, with associated loss of more than 500 civilian deaths, more than 1,500 civilian injuries and roughly $900 million in direct property damage. |
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Preparing Your Community For a Disaster
NFPA's Get Ready tool kit includes everything you'll need to teach the residents of your community what to do before, during, and after a disaster, including a detailed lesson plan along with training tips, evaluation ideas, a PowerPoint presentation to use during your trainings, as well as handouts, including disaster preparation tips for special audiences. |
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