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How to Construct a Fire Safety Plan for Your Family

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How to Construct a Fire Safety Plan for Your Family As a parent, you want to keep your child as safe as possible. You teach them about stranger danger and ensure they know how to cross the street and look both ways. We all know the basics of helping our kids stay safe. However, would you believe that a fire safety plan is one area where many families struggle? In general, families do not have a fire safety plan in place. This leads to problems when a fire occurs in the home, including injury and possible death. Having a fire safety...

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Protect Your Family This Fall with These Fire Safety Reminders

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Protect Your Family This Fall with These Fire Safety Reminders As the seasons change it is so exciting! The end of the year brings lots of outdoor activities, the changing of the leaves, and of course, the holidays are right around the corner. Unfortunately, it also can bring a rise in house fires due to issues that can be prevented if the proper precautions are taken ahead of time. With the cooler weather coming, it is important that your home or condo is fire safety ready. Change Batteries It is highly critical that you change the batteries in your smoke alarms...

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What is the Fire Safety Portal with Connected Fire?

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What is the Fire Safety Portal with Connected Fire? When it comes to staying in compliance with Chicago fire safety, it is important that you have more than just a few fire extinguishers on hand. You need to keep solid records on what maintenance and repairs you have done, what equipment you have, and any other compliance related record where you have easy access. That is where Connected Fire comes in. They have years of experience in helping HOA boards just like yours to stay in compliance with the ever-changing fire safety code. The best thing for you to do is...

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What Happens When You Sign Up with Connected Fire?

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What Happens When You Sign Up with Connected Fire? Perhaps you’re in the market for a fire extinguisher maintenance company in Chicago that can assist you in managing all your fire safety needs with your condo. Maybe you need someone to help you and your HOA stay in compliance with all the Chicago fire safety regulations. Whatever the case may be, Connected Fire can assist you with any and all fire safety standards in the area. But, what happens when you do decide to sign up with Connected Fire? What is the process of becoming a client of theirs? Take a...

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Fire Extinguishers and What You Should Know

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Fire Extinguishers and What You Should Know As a part of a condo board or just as a property owner in Chicago, you need to know a few things about fire extinguishers. These are a critical part of your fire safety in Chicago and you need to be prepared with the right equipment. There are many factors that go in to choosing the proper extinguisher, making sure that you are in compliance with the laws, as well as protecting your residents. Here are a few things to keep in mind when it comes to fire extinguishers in your condo in Chicago....

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