Reports about home fires are on the news all the time, and unfortunately, we continue to have significant damage to properties and tragic loss of life when home fires occur. Here are our 10 smoke alarm tips Be sure to install smoke alarms throughout your home even inside each bedroom.
AS WE enter cold winter months, Australians need to turn their attention to fire safety in their homes. During winter we use heating equipment that, especially after months in storage, can cause house fires resulting in significant property damage and the loss of life. Statistics show that winter is a
MORE daylight and warmer weather is upon us with the onset of spring, and clocks in most parts of Australia are soon to move forward with the beginning od daylight saving just over a week away. As we adjust our clocks it is also customary to check our smoke
A family has been hospitalised after carbon monoxide (CO) was present in their Sydney east home. The parents who arrived home at about 1:30pm on Monday found their children unconscious. Emergency services arrived soon after and treated the family at the home. All the children were then rushed to hospital.
PEOPLE in Sydney are experiencing days of thick smoke haze blanketing across their city, due to hazard-reduction burn-offs and unseasonably warm weather with only light winds with stable conditions. The NSW Rural Fire Service has warned that this smoke haze may continue to linger for the next few days.
A FIRE in a double-storey house in Melbourne’s west with no working smoke alarms has claimed a woman’s life who was unable to escape during the early morning hours last weekend. This tragic incident cautions us about how not being fire safety conscious can lead to detrimental consequences. It is
Question A family home in Sydney’s inner west has been destroyed by fire just after 5:30am on Tuesday morning. The family became aware of the fire, when their working smoke alarms began to sound. All but one member escaped through the front door while a teenage girl jumped from the
Recently an indoor gas heater in an elderly couple’s Victorian home was found to be leaking carbon monoxide (CO) gas when a technician carried out a maintenance check. Answer A fuel-burning appliance like a gas or oil heater is a common example where carbon monoxide can leak from. Carbon monoxide
A NEW South Wales Coroner’s inquest into the tragic death of nine-year-old girl has revealed her Western Sydney home had no working smoke alarms at the time of the fire in 2016. Indeed, her death reminds us of our responsibility in educating young Australians about being fire safety conscious. It