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All Smoke and No Fire
No fire means no safe water to drink. Can the all-women team ignite a flame before dehydration puts an early end to their time in Ecuador?
10 Lifesaving Smoke Alarm Safety Tips
Why Children Play With Fire, and How to Stop Them
Preschoolers and kindergartners are most likely to start fires caused by play, and are most likely to die in them, according to the National Fire Protection Association.
How to Prevent Home Fires
You can vastly cut down deadly fire risks by exercising good safety habits and simple prevention steps. This article lists the “Big 7” most common causes of preventable fires and tells you the simple things you can and should do to keep them from starting. Prevention costs little or nothing.
How to Help Prevent House Fires
There are many causes of house fires, including faulty wiring, alternate heat sources, cooking, and more. Learn how to help prevent house fires with Travelers.
How Do I Survive a Forest Fire?
Den Mother can help you keep your cool while the forest burns around you.
Why Going to Natural Gas Will Save You Future Headaches
With more and more gas-fired outdoor products on the market, learn why you should consider switching to natural gas for your grill.
Do Your Kids Know How To React To A Smoke Alarm?
If you can't get to your kids to save them during a fire: Will they wake up on their own, and know what to do? The Velsor family allowed WCCO into their home to put their family to the test.
Tips to combat ‘unhealthy’ air from wildfire smoke
How to Protect Your Pets From Wildfire Smoke
Your pets breathe the same air you do. If you’re putting on a mask and taking precautions against wildfire smoke, you should be taking precautions for your pets as well.
What's in wildfire smoke, and why is it so bad for your lungs?
Wildfires blanketing several Western cities are creating hazardous health conditions. Don't count on cloth masks to protect your lungs.
How to Detox after Wildfire Smoke Inhalation
Worried about the long-term effects of wildfire smoke inhalation? A natural detox can help expel foreign particles and restore health. Learn how.
Wildfire smoke can be hazardous to animals: how to keep them safe
A veterinarian offers tips to keep cats, dogs, birds -- and even livestock -- safe on days with bad air quality.
Why Wildfire Smoke Is More Dangerous Than You Realized
An air-quality specialist discusses how the smoke from recent wildfires choked her community and offers plans for surviving a fiery future.
How much does wildfire smoke damage the human body?
How to Smoke on a Gas Grill
Smoking on a gas grill is indeed possible, let me show you how
Which chemical is fire retardant or smoke suppressant?
Zinc borate is one such chemical that is used as a flame retardant in plastics and cellulose fibers, paper, rubbers and textiles. It is also quite useful for other application as well, but is prohibited by state and federal laws. If wanting this good quality chemical, you need to contact Royceintl.
Tips for dealing with wildfire smoke
When smoke levels are high, even healthy people may affected. Listen to your body and contact your health care provider if you are experiencing smoke-related health symptoms, including eye, nose, and throat irritation; coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, or headaches. Children, older adults, pregnant or nursing women, and people with asthma or heart conditions are at greater risk and should take added precautions.
Camp Fire fact sheet: Where is it exactly and why so much smoke?
Where it is exactly and why is the smoke in Sonoma?
Tips for using the right type of fire extinguisher
Fires can happen at any time, and there are different types of fires, which require different methods to extinguish them. If certain fires are extinguished in an improper way, then
11 Steps to Take when Fire and Smoke Damage your Property
The most common causes of fires are cooking accidents, smoking (a leading cause of both home and wild fires), heating equipment, electrical appliances, candles, children playing with fire, faulty wiring and flammable liquids. Commercial and residential property is also at risk when a nearby building catches fire and during wildfire season.<br>When a fire occurs, it can result in both primary and secondary damage to property.
