Much has changed since the original "Change Your Clocks, Check Your Smoke Alarms" message first appeared. Digital clocks change themselves, ...
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74 percent of all U.S. fire deaths occur in the home, according to the National Fire Protection Association. NFPA also warns ...
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Strobe smoke alarm If anyone in your home has some hearing loss, they may have trouble hearing basic smoke alarms, ...
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Even for smoke alarms that have long-life batteries—or are hard-wired—it’s still important to make sure the alarm is working. Not ...
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Prevention 1st has a long tradition of bringing creativity together with fire safety education. In the fall of 2021, the ...
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Most people use the gift of an extra hour given by the fall Daylight Saving Time change to catch a ...
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People often debate the value of Daylight Saving Time. But there’s no debating the value of using this biannual change ...
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A campfire casts a warm glow and a sense of adventure—even if it’s in your own backyard. Cooking dinner outside ...
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NYS Senator Joe Robach, Marlene Hamman-Whitmore and Rochester Fire Marshal Christine Schryver judge the posters Talented young artists from schools ...
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Fire and smoke spread faster in modern homes. Having a working smoke alarm, responding right away when it sounds, and ...
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When searching for your next Airbnb you might check out location, number of bedrooms, and whether it has a kitchen ...
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Sheryl Watts Sheryl Watts, a Safe at Home trainer for Prevention 1st, sees firsthand the positive effect the program has ...
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You still have to provide other pieces of the safety puzzle. Even smoke alarms with long-life batteries need testing. Fire ...
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Working from home, learning from home, or just staying home...We'll all spending a lot more time at home. Today’s electrical ...
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You say you just don’t have time to prevent injuries? If you’ve got less than one minute to devote to safety, use ...
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Our 1-minute moves can prevent injuries and take a total of less than 10 minutes. If you can find just a ...
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Fire Safety: Teaching an Essential Life Skill to Teens With Intellectual Disabilities ...
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Use these tips for all types of space heaters. Gas-fueled heating devices pose extra hazards because of the danger of ...
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Calling all student artists... Prevention 1st's 10th Annual Fire Safety Poster Contest is underway! Click here for details, rules and ...
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Effective fire prevention and survival skills—life skills that can protect young lives now and in their future lives—are more than ...
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April has been a month of celebrations for the winners of the 2017 Prevention 1st Home Fire Drill Poster Contest ...
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Congratulations to our 9th annual Home Fire Drill Poster Contest Winners! Prevention 1st received nearly 200 entries from students from ...
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Cooking is the most common cause of home fires. Foodlink, a regional food bank serving 10 counties in Greater Rochester, ...
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In the crowded Lily Café, the Prevention 1st Senior Safety Marshals know how to get and keep the attention of ...
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One simple action, closing your bedroom door, could save your life. Tests by UL’s Firefighter Safety Research Institute found that ...
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Prevention 1st has entered the exciting next phase in its development of an evaluated curriculum for teaching safety to people ...
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New York has became the latest state to pass legislation requiring that all smoke alarms sold have “long-life” batteries. So ...
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Young children and people with developmental disabilities are among those at highest risk from fire. At the Mississippi Fire Chiefs’ ...
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Read Part 1: How Can People With Disabilities Be Safe While Living Independently? Recently Prevention 1st convened Safe at Home: ...
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Thanksgiving is a peak day for gathering with family and friends. Unfortunately, it’s also the peak day for home cooking ...
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Putting out fires might seem the first line of defense for fire departments working to keep their communities safe. Enforcing ...
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Even as New York State legislation moves forward to require long-life batteries in all smoke alarms sold statewide, Prevention 1st ...
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If you've watched even one of those pet video your friends keep posting, you know that pets can do amazing ...
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Many people don't think of sparklers as a hazard, and readily hand them to children. In the states that ...
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July 4 is a glorious American celebration. Unfortunately, it's also by far the day of the year that produces the ...
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Sometimes when we at Prevention 1st explain our focus on home safety and injury prevention, we get a puzzled look ...
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We've all laughed at the pictures circulated in cyberspace showing ridiculously unsafe practices, from precarious ladders to smoking around flammable ...
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Storms in any season can leave your home without power. Use these tips from the Red Cross and National Fire ...
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