Daily Child Safety Week tips to help you keep your children safe: Tuesday – Fire

This week, running from 21 – 27 June, is Child Safety Week. The campaign comes from the Child Accident Prevention Trust who are aiming to raise awareness of the number of accidents that seriously injure or kill children and how parents can take measures to avoid them happening. 

Tuesday – fire
During Child Safety Week 2 toddlers will be admitted to hospital because they’ve inhaled smoke from a fire in the home.  The thick black smoke from a fire can fill your home in minutes and kill your child in seconds. 

If a fire starts when you’re asleep and you don’t have a working smoke alarm there’s a big chance the poisonous smoke will quickly make you unconscious and you’ll never wake up!

Make sure you have a working smoke alarm on every level of your home and double your chances of getting your family out alive. 

Take a few minutes every week to check your alarms are working. And pledge some time this week to fitting your smoke alarms, if they’re still sitting in their boxes!

Join parents throughout the country and pledge your time with the Child Safety Week Time Pledge and find out how to protect your child from serious accidents.

http://www.childsafetyweek.org.uk/child-safety-week/