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Through Operation Fire Safety, the UPA is committed to supporting local Fire Departments in an effort to prevent fires and save lives by distributing over $1,000,000 worth of smoke detectors and 250,000 Fire Safety Manuals to homeowners throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The UPA will also be bringing back the hugely successful Tot-Finder Fire Rescue program, which is responsible for saving thousands of lives throughout the United States of America.Public Adjusters are often called on to assist homeowners in recovering a maximized settlement after a fire occurs to their home. The UPA team knows all too well the financial and emotional burdens that a fire can cause for a family, and is dedicated to assisting local Fire Departments and promoting fire safety in an effort to prevent fires and save lives.
Advertising revenue from the UPA’s Fire Safety Manuals will go directly to many local Fire Departments throughout the area, who work hard and risk their lives to put out fires and save lives. Manuals will be locally distributed within the dispatch radius of various Fire Departments, and will feature paid advertisements from local businesses within that Fire Department’s Radius. Participating businesses will be given a sticker to show their support for Operation Fire Safety and show their customers that they support the local Fire Departments in their efforts to save lives.
The UPA is committed to distributing and installing $1,000,000 worth of smoke detectors to homeowners in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Many fires are caused by faulty or non-working smoke detectors or smoke detectors that have dead batteries or were installed improperly. The UPA wants to prevent these types of fires by ensuring that all homes have a smoke detector working in a high risk area. The UPA has determined that many homeowners do not have a smoke detector in the one room where most fires start: the garage. The UPA strongly encourages homeowners to place smoke detectors in their garage in order to immediately alert them of a possible fire, which may prevent further damage to the home and potentially save their lives, as a fire doubles every 6 seconds. The UPA also suggests that homeowners have a smoke detector in their upstairs hallway, as this is the smoke detector placement most likely to wake sleeping homeowners and their families.
The UPA understands that when a fire occurs, most homeowners are unprepared and uneducated is committed to making fire safety a top priority for homeowners in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The Fire Safety Manual teaches homeowners how and where to properly install smoke detectors, how and when to check them, and other vital smoke detector safety tips. Also included in the Fire Safety Manual is a Fire Safety Checklist, and overview of electrical hazards, a list of heating and cooking hazards, tips for preventing cleaning hazards, a guideline for fire extinguisher safety, a fire extinguisher safety FAQ, tips for safely dealing with faulty wiring, a guideline for safe smoking, how to properly store flammable materials such as gasoline, tips for proper cooking over an open flame, and a guideline for safe space heater usage.
The UPA’s Fire Safety Manual also provides a guideline for what to do after a fire has already occurred. The Fire Safety Manual provides tips for using Emergency Services, giving CPR, basic first aid tips, how to use an AED Locator, pet fire safety tips, how to prepare for an emergency and tips for staying safe during thunderstorms, severe winter weather, excessive heat, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, building collapses, nuclear emergencies and terrorism.
The UPA is also re-instating the Tot-Finder Fire Rescue program, which is responsible for saving thousands of young lives. As a part of Operation Fire Safety, the UPA team will be placing stickers in homes throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey to help firefighters identify rooms that contain children. The Tot-Finder program was one of the most successful programs in firefighting history, but was disbanded due to lack of funding. According to the website of the U.S. Fire Administration (http://www.usfa.fema.gov), a department of FEMA, “many fire departments do not have the capability to keep current information on residences that have Tot Finder stickers.” The UPA is dedicated to bringing back the Tot-Finder Fire Rescue program.
Contact Info:
Name: Chris Ashley
Email: Send Email
Organization: United Public Adjusters Association
Phone: 1-800-809-4302 ext. 2014
Website: http://www.unitedpublicadjusters.org
Release ID: 27870
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