Check your smoke detectors - its fire prevention week in Florida

This week is Fire prevention Week in Florida, and state officials are urging all Floridians to conduct a fire safety check of their homes during the week.

To protect your home and family from fire, state fire officials are recommending a number of actions to lower the chance of accidental fires.

They include never leaving your stove unattended while cooking – 40 percent of all home fires start in the kitchen.

Keep candles and heaters away from furniture or drapes and Replace all of the frayed electrical cords in your home.

You also shouldn’t run cords under rugs in high traffic areas of your home.

And most importantly, make sure you have a smoke detector installed, and make sure that the batteries in the smoke detector work.

Statistics show that in Florida only 40 percent of homes that suffered fires had smoke detectors, and of those only 25 percent were actually working.

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