Prevent Kitchen Fires

4/23/2018 (Permalink)

According to the U.S. Fire Administration cooking fires are the number one cause of home fires with unattended cooking causing nearly 90% of those fires.

Steps can be taken to prevent becoming one of those statistics. For starters having a working smoke alarm in the home reduces one’s chances of dying in a home fire by nearly half.

Other precautions to help prevent kitchen fires are:

• Never leave cooking food unattended
• Check cooking food regularly, remain in the home with food is cooking and use a time to remind yourself that the oven or stove is on
• Avoid wearing loose clothing or dangling sleeves while cooking
• Keep kids away from cooking areas by enforcing a ‘kid free zone’ of three feet around the stove
• Keep anything that can catch fire away from the stove top and oven or any other appliance that generates heat
• Clean cooking surfaces regularly to prevent grease buildup
• Always check the kitchen before going to bed or leaving the house to make sure all stoves, ovens and small appliances are turned off
• Consider purchasing a fire extinguisher to keep in your kitchen
• Smoke alarms save lives, install one and replace the batteries at least once a year

SERVPRO Golden/Wheat Ridge/Evergreen hopes everyone prevents home fires, but should such a loss occur, call us at 303-279-8055 we are your fire remediation specialists.