Smoke Alarms

Burns

Yield to Emergency Vehicles

Transportation Safety

Earthquake Preparedness

Wildland Fire Safety

Fireworks Safety and Prohibition

Vacation Safety

Recreational Safety

Back to School Safety

Exit Drills in the Home

Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery

Halloween Safety

Cooking & Heating Safety

Holiday & Winter Safety

Exit Drills in the Home (EDITH)

Everyone should practice E.D.I.T.H. (Exit Drills In The Home). Don't wait for smoke and fire to surprise you. Plan your home fire escape now.

• Sit down with your family and create a diagram of your home showing where all of the doors and windows are in each room. Make two escape routes from each room, especially the bedrooms. Locate all of the exit stairways if you live in an apartment or condominium building.

• Choose a place outdoors and a little distance away from your home and name that the "family meeting place". It can be at the corner stop sign, the neighbor's tree; any place that everyone will remember. When everyone leaves the home they should go directly to the family meeting place.

• If you must exit through a window, make sure that all children know how to open it. If there are security bars over the bedroom windows, at least one window must have bars that are open able from the inside.

• DO NOT go back into the house once you have left. If someone is missing or if you have pets inside, let the firefighters know when they arrive.

• Practice your escape plan often. Have fire drills during both day and evening hours so everyone will be familiar with what to do in the event of a fire.

Back to School Safety

Now is the time that most schools reopen and children return for another year of school. Taking a few moments to remind children on how to keep themselves safe is the first lesson for the school year!

• If you're taking a bus to school, be careful when boarding and exiting the bus. Don't run up or down the steps and stay in a single-file line.

• Once you've exited the bus, walk to a crosswalk and look both ways for traffic before you cross the street.If you're walking to school, walk with other children - there is safety in numbers.

• Don't get near anyone in a car. If someone in a car stops to ask for directions, stand as far away from the car as possible and call out the answer in a loud voice.

• Playground injuries are the most common of school-related injuries. Be careful of other children playing on swings, slides, and bars. Don't get in their way.Make sure there is a supervisor watching over everyone in the playground areas.Go right home after school. Don't hang out around the school grounds when almost everyone else has gone.If a troublemaker is bothering you, just walk away. If the troublemaker persists, let an adult know.

• Always use your safety equipment when playing football, basketball, baseball, etc., even during practice. More accidents happen during practice rather than games.