Kitchen	Bedroom	Bathroom
Living Room	Basement

Have your furnace serviced and inspected once a year to ensure its safe, efficient operation.

Keep all combustibles well clear of your furnace, water heater, and dryer, including exhaust pipes and vents.

Place a smoke alarm inside, or just outside your furnace room. This will give you early warning if your furnace, dryer, or water heater is causing a fire hazard.

Don't store combustible material under your basement stairs (this includes paint products). If they should catch fire, it may become impossible to use the stairs to escape.

Never store gas, propane, or any flammable fuel or paint product in the house.

Latex paint products may be stored indoors if they are in tightly sealed containers, well clear of any heat source.

Check windows to see that they could be easily opened in the event of a fire. If you've chosen to have bars on your basement windows, be sure that everyone in your house knows how to open them quickly. If they can't open them easily, consider removing them, especially if people sleep in the basement.

Also be sure to have something (chair, stool, dresser etc.) under the window that your family can climb on, to reach the window, should they need to escape. ( make sure you can climb them safely )

If you have a bedroom in the basement, you need a smoke alarm in it. Put one in now.

While doing laundry always remove the lint from the clothes dryers lint trap after every load.