So this weekend my fellow blogger and sister-in-law, Crystal, and I headed to Kansas City for some Fourth of July fun with our husbands' family (that's two husbands, one family, lest you be confused). Unfortunately, at 10pm on the fourth we found ourselves scooping up our babies and our preschoolers and helping to round up dogs and family members as we evacuated our in-laws' home because of a small fire. We are fine. The house is fine. The garage, where the fire started in a garbage can sustained only minimal damage. The psychological impact: enormous. The girls (preschoolers) each talked about the fire and all of the insuing events throughout the day today. They replayed the events of the night and Lilly asked if it would be okay to tell her teachers at school. And that was just the children! As for the adults, once the engines, medics and fire investigator were gone, we spent a good hour replaying the scene- how we each reacted, what we could have done differently, all with a whole slew of what-ifs-- What if we had not been in the house? What if it had been 2 hours laters and we had all been in bed? Suddenly all of those lessons of fire prevention come rushing back-- Do you know two ways out of the room that you are in? Do you know how to open those windows? Do you know better than to go back in for "stuff"? Would you have had the presence of mind to call 911? Would your children? Yikes, this could go on and on!! I don't want to be too much of a downer here, but as the daughter of a former fire chief and sister of a professional fire fighter, I would feel better if you would just do me this favor- Check for two ways out of the room you are in and then check out some of these great websites for lots of fire safety information:
Sparky the Fire Dog- Fire safety games and activities for kids
US Government's Fire Safety Website
US Fire Administration for Kids
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A great fire safety device is a fire-prevention outlet. What the fire-prevention outlet is able to do is with it’s multiple sensors that are within the device, it can detect abnormal heat from within the electrical circuit. Once these abnormal temperatures are detected, the fire-prevention outlet shuts down the entire electrical circuit, which thereby prevents an electrical fire from ever occurring. If everyone had these outlets installed in their homes, many more lives, properties, and homes can be saved. You can find out more information about the fire-prevention outlet, here at http://www.BSafeElectrix.com.
Sounds like a very cool device! I am going to check it out- Thanks for the tip!
I am so glad to hear you are all ok!
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