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Making Your Home and Family More Safe With Neal Zipser from Kidde Fire Safety – EP 92


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Over the next month we are partnering with Kidde Fire Safety to help you and your family to be prepared for a fire. Today in the Dads Toolbox we are pleased to have Neal Zipser with us. Neal Zipser works with Kidde as a liason between Kidde Fire Safety and the fire safety industry. If you are not aware Kidde Fire Safety makes smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, fire extinguishers and other home safety equipment all geared to making your home safer. 
Working with Kidde Fire Safety is important to us and hits close to home for Chris who had a home fire in 2013,where he ended up with 3rd degree burns on his arm. This really opened his eyes to what was needed to safeguard his home and he thanks Kidde Fire Safety products for helping with the event in his life.
While people like Chris may have home fires, having equipment to warn a family is important, as it can help save lives. Thus, having working equipment is one of the first steps to moving toward a fire safe home.
Kidde Fire Safety has partnered with Home Depot on numerous projects including the Operation Save a Life Program, where they donate smoke alarms to local fire departments so that people in the community have working smoke alarms within their homes. Also, Kidde is offering Save A Life Saturdays with local Home Depot stores. The next Save A Life Saturday is being offered on October 1, 2016.

Neal Zipser says that creating a escape plan within your home is very important. You also want to make sure that your smoke alarms are working.
As your smoke alarms are getting updated, make sure that your kids know what they sound like and where they are located. They also need to know the escape routes out of a room (and there should be at least two).
If you do have a fire, Neal says that what your kids should do first is touch the door with the back of their hand. After checking the bottom of the door too, if it is still cool, open it and try to exit.
One of the other things that many do not realize is that smoke is black and not white in color. Get below the smoke and crawl towards the exit.
If you have dogs you can train your dogs to also practice the escape plan too. By using treats and conditioning the dog to come to you during the alarm setting, you may be able to save them too. So make sure to practice. Neal Zipser of Kidde Fire Safety mentioned that on average you have three minutes to get out of the house when a smoke alarm is going off in your home.
After you are out of your home, DO NOT go back inside for any reason. Even if you think that a family member has not made it out. Many people sacrifice more lives by going back into a fire after they initially escaped.
Neal Zipser of Kidde Fire Safety shared some great resources that you can visit to help you to create a safer home including:

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