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Your home is filled with materials and products that will burn if ignited. Upholstered furniture, clothing, drapery fabrics, and liquids such as gasoline and volatile solvents are involved in many injury-causing fires each year. Most of these fires could be prevented.

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Upholstered Furniture

 

 

Usually  there are a lot of residential fires associated with upholstered furniture; annually about 900 people lose their lives. About one half of these fires are caused by smoking materials. Property losses amount to over $ 100 million from fires started by cigarette ignition of upholstered furniture.

 

1. Upholstered furniture fabrics made                          Yes / No                      

from vinyl, wool or thermoplastic

fibers are generally selected for

safety reasons.                        

2. I check thoroughly after parties for                          Yes / No                      

ashes or unextinguished cigarettes

that may have fallen behind and

between cushions and under furniture.

 

Recommendations:

 

v Look for furniture designed to reduce the likelihood of furniture fire from cigarettes. Much of the furniture manufactured today has significantly greater resistance to ignition by cigarettes than upholstered furniture manufactured 10 to 15 years ago.

v Always check the furniture where smokers have been sitting for improperly discarded smoking materials. Ashes and lighted cigarettes can fall unnoticed behind or between cushions or under furniture.

v Do not place or leave ashtrays on the arms of chairs where they can be knocked off.

v Look for fabrics made predominantly from thermo-plastic fibers (nylon, polyester, acrylic,) because they resist ignition by burning cigarettes better than cellulosic fabrics (rayon or cotton). In general, the higher the thermoplastic content, the greater the resistance to cigarette ignition

    

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1. Many fires are caused by smoking materials.

2. Ashes and lighted cigarettes can fall unnoticed behind or between cushions or under furniture.

 

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Mattresses and Bedding

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Smoldering fires in mattresses and bedding materials caused by cigarettes are a major cause of deaths in residential fires. In 1989 over 35,000 mattress/bedding fires caused about 700 deaths.

 

1. “No smoking in bed” is a rule that                       Yes / No                      

is practiced in my home.           

 

2. Heaters, ash trays, smoking materials                  Yes/ No                      

and other fire sources are located

away from bedding.                  

 

Recommendations:

 

v DO NOT smoke in bed. Smoking in bed is a major cause of accidental fire deaths in homes.

v Locate heaters or other fire sources three feet from the bed to prevent the bed catching on fire.

v Consider replacing your old mattress with a new one if you are a smoker.

 

 

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Flammable Liquids