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Fire Prevention Week 2014 – Protect Yourself Against Deadly Cooking Fires

It’s Fire Prevention Week October 5 – 11, and this year’s focus is on motivating people to test their smoke alarms each month to make sure they’re working properly. According to Guardian Safety Solution International, Inc., one key place a working smoke alarm is important is in the kitchen. The National Fire Protection Association reports that cooking was involved in 156,400 home fires in 2010 (latest figures available). These fires caused 410 deaths, 5,310 injuries and almost $100 million in direct property damage. Those were the reported fires, but it is estimated that more than 12 million unintentional home cooking fires go unreported and cause 640,000 injuries annually.

“Home owners and apartment dwellers are at most risk for fires because of inattentiveness…the phone rings, you answer an email, the baby cries. There are so many distractions in today’s busy world, it’s easy to start to cook a meal and then forget about it,” says Paul Rouse, GuardianSSI’s administrative officer. “Next thing you know, a fire starts on the stove and quickly spreads to curtains and other flammable material.”

spaghetti on fireIn addition to working smoke detectors and a handy fire extinguisher, Rouse recommends installing the Guardian III Model G300B, UL and ULC listed with a fuel shut-off. The Guardian is designed to detect and extinguish cooking fires and prevent re-ignition in private homes, apartments, senior housing, college campuses, hospitals and other facilities. See how the Guardian works here.

Once it detects heat at a pre-determined temperature, the Guardian sends a signal to release an extinguishing agent that suppresses the fire. Guardian will also shut off the gas or electric supply to the stove in order to prevent reigniting. “It makes sense in this busy world to have as much safety equipment as possible available to prevent or extinguish kitchen fires,” says Rouse.

Protecting families worldwide since 1985, GSSI is the recognized leader in the development and manufacturing of residential range top fire protection systems. GSSI’s mission is to develop and distribute quality safety products that provide customers with peace of mind, while protecting lives and property. For more information, contact GSSI at 800-786-2178 or visit guardianssi.com. Like Guardian on Facebook at GuardianSSI and follow on Twitter @GuardianSSI.

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October 10, 2014 Comments (0) Blog, Press Releases

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Toddler Injured in Cooking Fire

toddler fireThe Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports a toddler was injured in a cooking fire.  According to the report by Meg Jones, “A one-year-old boy was burned in a house fire Monday evening. When firefighters arrived at the two-family home around 7:30 p.m., the child and his mother were already outside the home in the 1700 block of W. Capitol Drive, said Battalion 2 Chief Kenton Kais. The boy suffered first- and second-degree burns on his arms and right leg and was taken to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, where he was expected to recover.The blaze was caused by a cooking fire. Fire crews were on the scene for 1 1/2 hours.” Create a three-foot “child-free zone” around the stove. Keep children and pets away from the stove while cooking to prevent burns and scalds

 

September 25, 2014 Comments (0) Residential

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Unattended Cooking Fire House Tour

australia house fire

We hope not, because the majority of of all house fires start in the kitchen.  In this video from Australia, Fire Investigator Mick Forbes walks us through a unit destroyed by fire  – the cause was a pot left unattended on the stove.  Do you leave cooking unattended?  Check out the tour of this burned out home here: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=781797655188147

September 2, 2014 Comments (0) Markets, Residential

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Fire: It Was the Best of Times, Worst of Times…

lt.kiurskiLt. Tom Kiurski, a 30-year veteran of the fire service, serves the Brighton Area Fire Department in Michigan as an academy instructor.  He writes about  the “Tale of Two Fires” where two families in Warren, Ohio, had cooking fires where 10 adults and children perished in one year. His article in the Livingston County Daily Press and Argus tells a compelling story about how cooking fires can be prevented.

His article begins, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. While those are lines from Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities,” it also has a lot to do with the tale I will tell you of two families in Ohio.”  Read more by clicking here.

 

August 19, 2014 Comments (0) Blog, Residential

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Massive Cooking Fire Fails!

cooking fails

These would be funny if they weren’t so darn scary!  The Huffington Post brings us “Up In Smoke” – some very bad kitchen cooking fire experiences.  Check it out here.

August 15, 2014 Comments (0) Blog, Residential

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Never Leave Your House While Cooking

nighttime fireSeems like a no brainer, huh? An unattended cooking fire started about 9:30 pm in the first-floor kitchen of a multi-family, two-story dwelling caused $10,000 in damages in Evanston, OH, Monday.  T. No one was home at the time, so it appears that the residents must have started cooking and then left the house.  When smoke rose to the second floor, those residents evacuated.  No one was injured.

August 14, 2014 Comments (0) Blog, Multi-Family

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College is Stressful Enough Without Campus Cooking Fires

Statistics and information provided in this graphic can be found on the U.S. Fire Administration and the official National Fire Protection Association websites. Campus and college cooking fire safety is one of GSSI’s major goals.

campus fires

August 5, 2014 Comments (0) Blog, Colleges

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Photo Montage of Cooking Disasters

spaghetti on fireNot everyone cooks so well that they can be on Top Chef or Food Network Stars.  But these funny yet pathetic cooking disasters illustrate how dangerous cooking can be.  Seriously, you can actually catch spaghetti on fire!  Checkout these disastrous cooking FAILS!

July 23, 2014 Comments (0) Blog

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Keeping Aging Fathers Safe for Father’s Day

Thanks in large part to advances in medicine, seniors are living longer and agingfatherare a rapidly growing segment of the U.S. and world population.  But health issues are not the only threat to the longevity of the elderly.  After medical issues, the leading cause of death and injury for older Americans are accidents and fires.  There are ways for seniors or their caretakers to help avoid some accidents, but fires are not only highly preventable, kitchen fires can be effectively stopped in their tracks. For the elderly, particularly aging men, this could mean the difference between life and death.

Paul Rouse, chief administrative officer and fire suppression educator at Dallas-based Guardian Safety Solutions International, a 34-year veteran of the fire industry and technical consultant for Underwriters Laboratory notes:

  • Cooking was, by far, the leading cause of all residential building fires and injuries.
  • The relative risk of individuals aged 65+ dying in a fire is 2.5 times greater than the general population.
  • In 2001, the elderly (over 64 years old) represented 12% of the U.S. population but suffered more than 30% of all fire deaths.
  • Older males are 50% more likely to die in fires than women.
  • Older American Indians and African Americans are at much greater risk of dying in a fire than the older white population.

 

About GSSI

Protecting families worldwide since 1985, Guardian Safety Solutions International Inc. is the recognized leader in the development and manufacturing of residential range top fire protection systems. GSSI’s mission is to develop and distribute quality safety products that provide customers with peace of mind, while protecting lives and property. See ICC-ES Listing No PMG-1166 at www.icc-es.org\pmg.

July 20, 2014 Comments (0) Press Releases, Senior Living

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Guardian SSI Exhibits at Georgia Fire Safety Symposium

Guardian Safety Solutions International, Inc. (GSSI), the leader in the development and manufacturing of residential range top fire protection systems, will exhibit at the Georgia Fire Safety Symposium, July 28 – 30, at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center, Forsyth, GA.

“We are excited to demonstrate our ‘Guardian Solution’ range top suppression system that protects against a range top fire before it causes property damage or injuries,” said Paul Rouse, Guardian SSI’s administrative officer.  “The purpose of this symposium is to instill an awareness of individual responsibility for safety and prevention at home, school, work and in all areas of life.  The objective is to decrease Georgia’s alarming fire death rate and to take fire prevention education to cities and counties that do not have it and to enhance those that do.”

GSSI manufactures the Guardian III Model G300B, UL and ULC listed with a fuel shut-off.  The Guardian is designed to detect and extinguish cooking fires and prevent re-ignition in private homes, apartments, senior housing, college campuses, hospitals and other facilities.  See how the Guardian works here.

Once it detects heat at a pre-determined temperature, the Guardian sends a signal to release an extinguishing agent that suppresses the fire. Guardian will also shut off the gas or electric supply to the stove in order to prevent reigniting. The design of the system offers:

  • automatic operation
  • continuous 24-hour protection
  • concealed installation
  • easy clean-up
  • proven reliability

For more information, contact GSSI at 800-786-2178 or visit www.guardianssi.com. “Like” Guardian on Facebook at Fire Prevention News www.facebook.com/GuardianSSI and follow on Twitter @GuardianSSI.

About GSSI

Protecting families worldwide since 1985, Guardian Safety Solutions International Inc. is the recognized leader in the development and manufacturing of residential range top fire protection systems. GSSI’s mission is to develop and distribute quality safety products that provide customers with peace of mind, while protecting lives and property. See ICC-ES Listing No

PMG-1166 at www.icc-es.org\pmg.

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Media Contact:

Susan Tellem, APR, RN, BSN

Tellem Grody PR, Inc.

310.313.3444 x1

Susan@tellemgrodypr.com

July 20, 2014 Comments (0) Press Releases

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