The safety of your family is always a top concern. Your home has smoke alarms and fire extinguishers, of course, but what else can you do to keep your family and home safe? These Cincinnati winters bring with them a host of home heating concerns.
Portable Heaters In Our Cincinnati Homes
According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), there were 1,490 civilian injuries and over a billion dollars in direct property damage associated with heating equipment between 2009 and 2013.
What should we look out for?
Portable and stationary space heaters were involved in 40% of home heating fires, and 84% of deaths resulting from home heating fires. Making sure that you keep any flammable items – blankets, pillows, clothing, furniture upholstery – away from your space heaters helps reduce your risk.
Another contributing factor to many home heating fires was debris. Chimneys collect creosote as people make fires in their fireplaces, and this creosote comes from HVAC equipment. Cleaning your chimney is an important fire safety measure, particularly over the winter months. 49% of all home heating fires happened in December, January, or February, according to NFPA studies.
If you use a kerosene heater, you should be particularly careful. Knocking over a lighted kerosene heater is a common cause of house fires, as is the explosion that can be caused when a heater is used in a room where there any fumes subject to combustion.
Being conscious about fire safety can save your home. Teaching your family can save lives too – especially when you teach them how they can prevent activity which may increase their fire risk.
Call The Cincinnati Heating Specialists
For a free Cincinnati heating consultation, for your furnace or heat pump, heating system, and for any other thermal questions, just get in touch with us and we would be happy to help you. Fill out our contact form or call the HVAC professionals from Pinnacle Air Solutions at 513.984.HEAT (4328).