• Keeping Your Community Safe and Warm
• More Ways to Keep Your Community Safe and Warm
• Heating safety tips
• Heating reports and statistics
• Tips on saving energy

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More Ways to Keep Your Community Safe and Warm

Heating equipment is one of the leading causes of home fires during the winter months. Our greatest defense against these fires is education. That's why NFPA has developed "Keeping Your Community Safe and Warm."

Every fire department in the United States has been mailed a CD which contains a toolkit of support materials to help them conduct successful heating-safety campaigns in their communities. Those resources include:

Fill-in-the-blank news release

• (City/Town) Fire Department Wants to Keep You Safe and Warm This Winter  (32 KB)
• (City/Town) Fire Department Cautions Residents About Potential Safety Cost of Alternative Heating Equipment (39 KB)

Fill-in-the-blank Op/Ed

• Alternative heating  (31 KB)
• Carbon Monoxide: The Silent Killer (31 KB)

Fill-in-the-blank letter to the editor

• Response to local fire caused by heating equipment  (31 KB)

For families

• Hang Sparky’s home-heating safety checklist (PDF, 634 KB) on your refrigerator to remember
  to stay safe and warm this (and every!) winter.

Dan Doofus video PSA

Heating Safety Keeping your house warm this winter can be dangerous.  Dial-up (56 K)  ISDN/LAN (256 K)  Cable/DSL (512 K)  Youtube.com

Printable safety spots (PSA cartoons)

• Chimney (PDF, 546 KB)
• Space heater  (PDF, 501 KB)

Heating safety print ads

• General rules for heating your home (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• General rules for central heating (PDF, 1.2 MB)
• General rules for heating with a gas heater (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• General rules for space heating with electricity (PDF, 1.2 MB)
• General rules for heating with a portable kerosene heater (PDF, 1 MB)
• General rules for heating with wood or pellets (PDF, 1.1 MB)

Easy-to-read messages

• Heating safety tips (English) (PDF, 2.2 MB)
• Heating safety tips (Spanish) (PDF, 2.2 MB)

Other resources

• Heating fast facts  (PDF, 1.2 MB)
• Heating safety talking points  (PDF, 414 KB)
• Hot ideas: How to Get Heating Safety Messages Out to Your Community  (PDF, 90 KB)
• NFPA's heating fact sheet
• NFPA Report: Home Fires Involving Heating Equipment , September 2007  (PDF, 405 KB)