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Fire safety advice for the disabled
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If you have any difficulties hearing, seeing or moving about, you need to take extra care to deal with the risk of fire. If you take a few simple steps, learn a few good habits and avoid some bad ones, you avoid almost all fires in the home.
| West Midlands Fire Service have provided a website for the Deaf and Hard of hearing community featuring video clips of a British Sign Language interpreter. The website also has text and provides helpful advice including: Emergency calls, Non-emergency calls, Home fire safety check, HFSC booking form, Support team and Deaf community news |
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West Midlands Fire Service website for the Deaf Community
www.wmfs.net/wmfs/deafsite.xtml. Opens in a new window |
- Electric Blankets
Trading Standards recommend they have a life span of 10 years. They must be kept dry and flat at all times. Free testing by Trading Standards takes place once a year in Shropshire in the Autumn
- Make sure you have working smoke alarms, we recommend at least one per floor
- Never leave cooking unattended
Over 50% of house fires start in the kitchen. Perhaps use a timer as a reminder when cooking
- Use torches rather than candles in a power cut
- Never overload your sockets
- Never smoke in bed
- Keep matches and lighters away from visiting children
- Never leave your television on stand-by
- Close your kitchen and lounge door at night
- Make a fire escape plan. Keep escape routes free from obstructions
For a free Home Safety Check call 01743 260298 and leave your details.
Further information
Alison Teece
Vulnerable Persons Officer
01743 260 260
Delyth Humphreys
Vulnerable Persons Officer
01743 260 260
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