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"   As part of National Fire Prevention Week, October 7 to 13, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued new statistics on household fires. As a cooking professional, I was startled to learn that fires were most likely to be caused by cooking equipment which accounts for about 40% of all household fires. Portable heaters and home heating and cooling equipment were also high on the list. According to the CPSC and the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), the most important thing you can do to protect yourself and your family is to install smoke alarms on every level of your home, in every bedroom, and outside every sleeping area. They also recommend using interconnected alarms, so that when a single alarm detects smoke, it sets off every alarm in the house. In its most recent study, conducted between 2008 and 2010, the CPSC found that chances of surviving a household fire nearly doubled in homes with properly installed smoke alarms. Remember never to leave cooking foods unattended. If you have elderly relatives, consider buying them tools to protect them from fires including heat-resistant pot-holders, electric water kettles, or the First Alert SA100B smoke alarm, designed to sound an exceptionally loud alarm. For more tips on cooking safety, see the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers&amp;#039; (AHAM) Recipe for Safer Cooking. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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