Space Heater Safety Tips

A few tips on how to avoid fire hazards when using space heaters this winter:

1. Do not hang laundry close to your space heater. If a piece of laundry such as a towel were to fall on top of the heater, it could start a fire.

2. If you go to sleep with your heater on, make sure it is a safe distance from your sleeping area. If a futon or blanket comes into contact with the heater, it could start a fire.

3. Turn off your gas heater before refilling its tank. If you leave it on while pouring gas into the tank, spillage could cause a fire.

4. Always unplug heaters when they aren’t in use. The halogen heater shown in the video has a tendency to turn itself on when somebody nearby uses a TV remote control.

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9 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - January 17, 2009 at 8:31 am

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http://www.hormel.com VonSkippy

Central Heating – Look into it Japan.

Also, don’t electric heaters have a thermal overload sensor to prevent fires when they tip over or get covered by something?
http://www.victorymanual.com Alex

Great report on how to be careful of the obvious!
http://www.dumbwhore.com dumbwhore

and don’t use extension cords that aren’t of the proper rating. Almost caught my house on fire that way this year.
hl

I have central heat.

Although I avoid the fire hazard of a space heater I have to have carbon monoxide detectors in my home otherwise if something went wrong I would probably never know until it was too late.

http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

That’s a serious thing. MY sister once almost died from carbon monoxide in her bathroom due to a water heater working with gas not being calibrated correctly.

Jax143

Heater deaths?
Jerry

I wanna try turning on halogen using remote control

http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

I don’t get this – are those heaters usually also remote controlled or does the halogen react with the infrared beam from the remote control in some way or what?

http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

Ah yes, and we all remember the performance of Ned Flanders and his wife during a fire prevention information day, when they were playing a Hippie couple and Ned’s pants caught fire while showing the dangers of smoking in bed. ^^

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