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Halloween safety

NFPA Safety Tips

	Buy only costumes, wigs and props labeled flame-resistant or flame-retardant. If you are making your own costume, choose material that won't easily ignite if it comes into contact with heat or flame. Avoid using billowing or long trailing features. If your child is wearing a mask, make sure the eye holes are large enough so they can see out.
	Provide children with lightweight flashlights to carry for lighting or as part of their costume.
	Dried flowers, cornstalks and crepe paper are highly flammable. Keep these and other decorations well away from all open flames and heat sources, including light bulbs and heaters.
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AUDIO
Lorraine Carli, NFPA Vice President of Communications, talks about Halloween safety:

	Tip #1: Avoid potentially flamable Halloween costumes.
	Tip #2: Use alternatives to candles whenever possible.
	Tip #3: Make children aware of fire safety.

Planning ahead can help make this Halloween a fire-safe one. Taking simple fire safety precautions, like making sure fabrics for costumes and decorative materials are flame-resistant, can prevent fires.

During the four-year-period of 2002-2005, NFPA estimates that decorations were the item first ignited in an estimated average of 1,150 reported home structure fires per year. These fires caused an estimated average of three civilian deaths, 56 civilian injuries and $24.8 million in direct property damage per year.

Source: NFPA´s " Home Structure Fire that Began with Decorations," November 2007.

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