Fire Prevention Week - All Comments

re: October is Fire Prevention Month

Webmaster — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:54:55 GMT

There have been two fatal fires involving children in NYC since we posted this blog... one involved a smoke detector being disabled because it frequently went off during cooking, but wasn't available when it was truly needed. Jason was involved in the removal of three children from the home, to read more on this tragic event paste the following into your browser:

www.nydailynews.com/.../2008-10-11_five_people_from_one_family_killed_in_ch.html

re: October is Fire Prevention Month

Webmaster — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:30:58 GMT

All parents don't want to feel "cut off" from their children when they're so vulnerable, however it is much safer to use a baby monitor to listen for cries, coughs, etc. through closed doors than have the doors open.

Regarding CO detectors, it is more important to have it near the likely source (ours is just outside the kitchen and another just outside the boiler room on a wall out of reach) so that the problem is caught in it's earliest stages than the height on the wall.

re: October is Fire Prevention Month

nessa20 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:55:45 GMT

Wow this was great, thanks so much. I didn't know about keeping doors closed while you sleep. I have a 15.5mth old whose room is directly across from mine and I keep my door open in case anything like a fire happened I'd be able to or I think I'd be able to get her fast. Another thing is, I've heard that you should have your carbon monoxide detector down near the your heating vents? is that true?