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| A Message from Cherry City's Chief Jim Skalos |
| Protecting Yourself and Those you Love Summer 2010 |
Dear Friends,
With the Summer heat well underway, it is important to practice fire safety. If you are
having a backyard picnic, a contained recreational fire, or even if you smoke, please
practice these important fire safety tips.
While grilling, whether it be on a charcoal grill or a gas grill, be sure not to leave the grill
unattended. Small children playing have the tendency to run into objects with their toys.
This could result in someone getting burned, or causing debris to spill out, potentially
causing a brush fire.
Having a recreational fire in your back yard is fine, as long as it is contained in an
approved container or structure, such as an outdoor fireplace. With it being so dry this
summer, hot embers may fly off of the fire and land in burnt out grass nearby, potentially
causing a fire. Be sure you have either an extinguisher nearby or a garden hose ready to
go in case of an accident.
For those of you who smoke, cigarettes cause many fires in the house as well as on the
side of the roadway. please be considerate with your cigarettes by putting them out in the
ashtray of your vehicle while you are driving and not flicking them out of the window. You
may be 5 to 10 miles away from where you threw your cigarette out, and now it is catching
a large area of grass on fire near someone's house.
We have been fortunate this year not having many brush fires, even with it being so dry.
These are tough fires to fight because a lot of the time, they require strenuous climbing or
descending with a lot of equipment on hillsides. Manpower is an issue fighting these
fires... we may have to call in additional resources from other departments, which in turn
blocks roadways, creating traffic headaches, etc.
Please, with the beautiful days of summer upon us, practice basic fire safety everyday!
With the Summer heat well underway, it is important to practice fire safety. If you are
having a backyard picnic, a contained recreational fire, or even if you smoke, please
practice these important fire safety tips.
While grilling, whether it be on a charcoal grill or a gas grill, be sure not to leave the grill
unattended. Small children playing have the tendency to run into objects with their toys.
This could result in someone getting burned, or causing debris to spill out, potentially
causing a brush fire.
Having a recreational fire in your back yard is fine, as long as it is contained in an
approved container or structure, such as an outdoor fireplace. With it being so dry this
summer, hot embers may fly off of the fire and land in burnt out grass nearby, potentially
causing a fire. Be sure you have either an extinguisher nearby or a garden hose ready to
go in case of an accident.
For those of you who smoke, cigarettes cause many fires in the house as well as on the
side of the roadway. please be considerate with your cigarettes by putting them out in the
ashtray of your vehicle while you are driving and not flicking them out of the window. You
may be 5 to 10 miles away from where you threw your cigarette out, and now it is catching
a large area of grass on fire near someone's house.
We have been fortunate this year not having many brush fires, even with it being so dry.
These are tough fires to fight because a lot of the time, they require strenuous climbing or
descending with a lot of equipment on hillsides. Manpower is an issue fighting these
fires... we may have to call in additional resources from other departments, which in turn
blocks roadways, creating traffic headaches, etc.
Please, with the beautiful days of summer upon us, practice basic fire safety everyday!