March – Fire Prevention Month in the Philippines.  It is the month where most fire incidents occur.  Based from Bureau of Fire and Protection (BFP), every year, more than 100 Filipinos die in home fires. Thousands more suffer with the loss of house and valuables while hundreds are injured by fire.

In its objective to double efforts in heightening public awareness on fire safety and prevention, the BFP will implement a massive information campaign nationwide through the use of mass media, which will consists of TV and radio guestings, conduct of seminars, and distribution of print materials on Fire Safety Tips.

Watch fire safety tips video produced by BFP:


SIMPLE HOME PREVENTION MEASURES

  • Crush your cigarettes and cigar stubs thoroughly before discarding them. Provide yourselves with ashtray. Do not smoke in bed.
  • Oil or gas and other native lamps should be place away from curtains and other objects that easily catch fire. Do not put them where the wind, children, cats or other moving beings may topple them. Put out the flame before going to bed.
  • Do not store any flammable substance or any volatile liquid in the kitchen. Cover the flammable container tightly.Extinguish all live charcoals and embers or concentrate them in the middle of the stove after being through with kitchen chores. Make it a habit to inspect the kitchen before retiring. Most fires in the home occur at night.
  • Keep matches and lighters away from reach of children.
  • Clear the corners and nook of the house from rubbish, rags and other waste materials.
  • Remove the accumulation of leaves in gutters and other parts of the roof and wood shaving and litters in the attic.
  • Quantities of flammables, such as gasoline, oil benzene, naptha, alcohol, and other highly flammable materials should be kept in dwelling houses.
  • Rubbish burning should be done on the stove or in the yard away from the house wall. Every smoldering coal left from the bonfire should be extinguished. Be careful that no flying embers from bonfire would alight on the roof of the houses.
  • Do not use open flames for decorations.
  • Combustible objects, such as firewoods, waste paper and rugs should not be indiscriminately dumped or strewn in the house. Boxes should be regularly cleaned.Kerosene and oil stoves should be checked to leakage and they should be regularly cleaned.
  • Do not use leaking liquefied petroleum gas equipment.

Don’t play with fire.Better be safe than sorry.

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