Fire safety measures during the heating period

To avoid fires in Your home, remember and follow the basic rules of fire safety:
When using heating devices, it is forbidden to use electrical wiring with damaged insulation.
Do not install electric heaters near objects that can be burned.
Do not forget to turn off all electric heating devices when leaving the house.
Do not use gasoline, kerosene, or other flammable liquids to light stoves.
Keep track of the distance from the furnace's firebox to furniture, bedding, and other incinerated appliances. This distance must be at least 1.25 m.
Do not forget to clean the chimneys from soot before the start of the heating season and every three months during the entire heating season.
Do not use stoves that have cracks, faulty doors, insufficient cutting from chimneys to wooden structures of walls and floor partitions.
Don't forget: for smoke extraction should be applied strictly vertical chimneys with no ledges. The thickness of the walls of smoke channels made of bricks should be at least 120 mm.
Make sure that a pre-heating sheet (at least 70x50 cm in size) is nailed near the oven.
Do not leave unattended burning stoves, lit kerosene burners, kerosene lamps, Primus lamps, electric heating and gas appliances.
Do not allow multiple powerful consumers of electricity (electric stove, electric fireplace, kettle, etc.) to be connected to the power grid at the same time, causing an overload of the power grid.
A serious danger is the use of non-standard homemade heating devices.
Make sure that all electrical appliances are working properly.
Do not leave gas appliances running unattended. You can't dry clothes over a gas stove.
Do not: if there is a smell of gas in the apartment, turn on electric lighting, light matches, smoke, use an open fire. In this case, you must immediately call the gas emergency service and thoroughly ventilate the premises before they arrive.
When opening the gas pipeline tap, check whether the taps on the gas appliances are closed. Before you light a gas burner, you need to light a match, and then open the burner tap.
Do not use a blowtorch or torch to warm frozen pipes.
Do not leave children at home alone when the gas stove is on, the fireplace is on, the stove is on, or electrical appliances are on.
If there is a fire or smoke, immediately call the fire Department at 101 and provide the exact address.

Chief of the guard PCH-32 p.Kalbatau Imashev A.
senior Lieutenant of civil protection