FIRE PREVENTION

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Fire accidents at home can be prevented if we choose to adopt simple fire prevention practices as a good habit.

FIRE PREVENTION TIPS

For Rooms:
- Avoid over-charging mobile devices, Power Assisted Bicycles (PABs) and Personal Mobility Devices(PMDs); and especially charging them overnight
- Avoid charging items on or near combustible materials, i.e. bed, sofa, curtains, newspapers
- Never leave irons unattended when in use.

For Kitchen:
- Never leave cooking unattended
- Never leave combustible materials near cooking areas or any heat source.

For Smokers:
- Avoid smoking in bed. Better still, smoke out of the home and at residential designated smoking areas
- Extinguish lighted materials like matches and cigarette butts completely before disposal
- For HDB home owners, avoid disposing cigarette butts down the garbage chute. This is to prevent rubbish chute fires

On Children:
- Keep away fire starter items like matches and lighters from children
- Educate them about the dangers of fire,

Safety advice on electrical items:
- Discard all faulty electrical appliances with exposed wiring or insulators 
- Avoid overloading a single electrical outlet with many power plugs. Use trusted extension sockets with a safety mark
- Never make unauthorised electrical extensions and points. Always let a licensed contractor to do so 

Safety advice on gas:
- Never make unauthorised connections of gas. Always let a licensed contractor to do so

Safety advice on common corridors. staircases and dry/ wet riser compartments
- Always keep common corridors, staircases and its landing free from obstruction or combustible materials. Allow a minimum clear escape passage of 1.2 metres
- Blocking passageway that obstructs smooth evacuation during a fire can endanger lives and lives can be lost
- Be considerate. Never store any personal items within the dry/ wet riser and hosereel compartments
- Read Advice from SCDF

Additional advice:
- Consider investing in a 2KG portable dry powder fire extinguisher for the home. Small and manageable fires that do not pose high personal risk can be extinguished; before it gets to an uncontrollable destructive stage.
- Consider installing a Home Fire Alarm Device (HFAD), an automatic smoke detector which provides early warning of a fire, by sounding an alarm to alert the occupants. 

FIRE PREVENTION & SAFETY TIPs

HOW TO USE A HOSE REEL

CREDIT: SCDF

Preventing home destruction and loss of lives from a fire is a shared community responsibility. Do not let yourself and others become a victim. Protect your homes and loved ones starting today. 

USEFUL CONTACTS FOR FIRE INCIDENTS:

SINGAPORE CIVIL DEFENCE FORCE (SCDF):

A minute can make a difference between life and death.
Call the right number - so as persons facing serious, life-threatening situations are not deprived of an emergency ambulance service.

FOR FIRE / EMERGENCIES / LIFE THREATENING SITUATIONS: 
CALL:     995
Examples of emergencies: fire incident, cardiac arrest, active seizures, breathlessness, major traumas and stroke.

NON-EMERGENCIES: 
CALL:     1777
Examples of non emergencies: toothaches, diarrhoea, coughs and headaches.

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