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LA County Fire Department Offers Safety Tips For Fire Prevention Month

The Los Angeles County Fire Department is offering tips to protect Santa Clarita Valley residents if their house were to catch fire through the fire prevention campaign, “Look. Listen. Learn. Be aware. Fire can happen anywhere.”


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The LACoFD is working to educate residents about these three basic, but essential, steps to reduce the likelihood of having a fire — and how to safely escape in the event of one.

LOOK

Look for places a fire could start. Take a good look around your home and identify potential fire hazards.

“Look around your house for things like electrical sockets that may have several different devices plugged into them,” said Joey Marron, an inspector for the LACoFD. “Make sure candles are not near drapes, and towels and oven mitts are a safe distance from stove tops.”

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The Los Angeles County Fire Department is offering tips to protect Santa Clarita Valley residents if their house were to catch fire through the fire prevention campaign, “Look. Listen. Learn. Be aware. Fire can happen anywhere.”  

The LACoFD is working to educate residents about these three basic, but essential, steps to reduce the likelihood of having a fire — and how to safely escape in the event of one.

Related: LA County Fire Department To Host Fire Expo In Santa Clarita

LISTEN

Listen for the sound of a smoke alarm.

When a house catches on fire, residents could have just minutes to escape safely once the smoke alarms go off.  

“Three of every five home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms,” according to a LACoFD news release.

When smoke alarms fail to operate, it is usually because batteries are missing, disconnected or dead, officials said.  

LEARN

The LACoFD recommends that residents should learn two ways out of every room and make sure all doors and windows leading outside open easily and are free of clutter.

The LACoFD also recommends families have a meeting place in the event their house catches on fire. The meeting place should be a safe distance from the home and where everyone should know to meet, according to officials.

Facts About Fires

Unattended cooking is the leading factor contributing to house fires, according to officials. Frying poses the greatest risk of fire.

Ranges or cooktops accounted for 62 percent of home cooking fire incidents, and ovens accounted for 13 percent of home fires nationwide, according to Fire officials.

More than half of all cooking fire injuries occurred when people tried to fight the fire themselves.

“If you come across a grease fire in your kitchen, do not fight it with water. That will only make the fire spread,” said Marron. “When grease catches fire, smother it.”

However, if a fire starts in the kitchen and starts spreading to a nearby cabinet or other part of your house, “Get out and call 9-1-1,” Marron said.   

The leading factor contributing to home heating fires was a failure to clean creosote buildup in chimneys.

About 84 percent of home heating fire deaths involved stationary or portable space heaters.  

Even though space heaters are more commonly used in the midwest and east coast, it is important to know how to use them in Santa Clarita, according to officials.  

“Space heaters — give it space,” Marron said. “When using space heaters, make sure there is three feet around the heater.”

Nearly half of all home heating fires occur in December, January and February, the news release said.  

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About Louie Diaz

Louie was born and raised in Santa Clarita. At the age of two Louie lost his vision due to a brain tumor. However, Louie doesn't let blindness stop him from doing what ever it is he wants to accomplish. Growing up some of his favorite hobbies were wood working, fishing and riding bikes. Louie graduated from College of the Canyon in December of 2017, with a Broadcast Journalism degree. Growing up Louie has always wanted to be a fire fighter or a police officer, but because of his blindness Louie knew that wouldn't work. Louie has always loved listening to police and fire radio traffic, using a scanner, and he figured if he was going to listen to the scanner so much, he should do something with it.