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From YouTube: Chamber Community Outreach of 5-2023

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City of Chelsea, Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, Guest: Chelsea Fire Department.

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Thank you so I would say. Thank you. Everyone for coming today to this month's community outreach meeting. I really appreciate your time and the sacrifice to come here for the next hour. We're really happy to have the chief of the Chelsea fire department here with us to present this month and I will turn it over to the chief.

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All right, good afternoon, everyone thank you for coming. At Jen's request, we put together a little bit of a home safety series, that's based around summer safety, but most of it applies year-round, there's a couple components that are more specific to the subtle ones. So, with that I'll jump right into this, for you, obviously, as far as fire safety goes in the home, the most important thing you can do for your family is to have smoke, alarms and carbon monoxide detectives. But we're going to take both topics separately.

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Smoke alarms in your home is the most single most important thing you can do. You have less than a minute to safely get out of the building. Sometimes, when there's a fire, um your smoke alarm needs to be functional. It needs to work. So if you have the type of smoke alarm that has a battery that needs to be changed, we always go with the smoke and change it. When you change the clocks so spring and fall when the clocks jump ahead and jump back, that's the time to change the batteries in your smoke detector.

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Also recommend.

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That you replace your smoke detectors with the new 10-year detectors, there's sealed units- and they last for 10 years, but the single greatest thing you can do to protect your family is to have working smoke detectors you need early detection. Fires today is spreading faster and faster than ever before, and we're going to talk a little bit more about that um as we continue. But smoke detectors are super important.

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You can't take the batteries out when you're cooking, because you've activated it and forget to put them back in and they only are valuable to you if the batteries are working.

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What you're going to see here is the reason why smoke detectors are so important. This is a comparison of Home Furnishings from 30 years ago and from today and the natural materials that your couches and your pillows and your drapes and your rugs or fabricate that we're made with and manufactured with um 30 years ago, plus all natural cotton Fighters. Today, most everything in your home is made of plastics and man-made materials. These man-made materials ignite faster, they burn hotter and they spread faster.

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So this video here is going to demonstrate to you the difference between.

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A legacy fire in a modern day, fire there's no sound, but the video basically speaks for itself.

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These two rooms are the exact same size. They just have Legacy components versus modern day components.

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These fights are allowed to grow until flashover. What flashover is is the point at which a Content fire becomes full room. Involvement and you'll see that this is being sped up, obviously for the purpose of time, but you see that a fire stops on the couch and both of these different scenarios and what we're counting is. How long is it going to take for that room to flash over to become full room involvement.

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We're approaching approaching three minutes in and you can see how much worse the synthetic room is burning than the 30 year old structure.

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Right now, this room is filled with superheated gases. Toxic products of combustion, the temperature at the ceiling level, is probably 1500 degrees. If you're on the floor crawling out of there, you could probably survive. If you know this is happening but you're just under five minutes that fire is flashed over at four minutes and 50 seconds. This is the same room 30 years ago.

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That's the dramatic difference. This is going to take 20 minutes to flash over, maybe 28 minutes to flash over, so that I, the the difference is dramatic. It's dramatic- and this is why your smoke detectors for one are super important, because you have very very little time to escape this.

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Is 30 minutes in.

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Dramatic difference, so not only is it making it nearly impossible for you to escape if you during the night, if you don't have smoke detectors, but you can also see how difficult it is for firefighters, how important it is for us to get there early and to get water on a fire as fast as possible. The Dynamics have changed. uh Tactics have had to change, but that comparison right there will show you why it's so important that you have smoke detectors.

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Okay, we'll see if I can get past this there. We go all right in this video. What you're going to see is both modern day rooms, but what you're going to see is the difference between a fire and a bedroom when you sleep with the door closed versus sleeping with the door open, okay, you should always sleep with the bedroom door. What's closed, most people probably think it's safer to sleep. With the doors open.

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They can hear the kids or their parents in another room, but if a fire breaks up during the night, the safest thing you can do is to be in a room with a smoke alarm and the door closed, and this video will demonstrate why.

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Whoever thinks that you're, safer sleeping with the doors open.

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Doors down from mine always open I'm, not a little bit confidence. They would stop anything anything.

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Chris, how are you great.

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As you speak about fire safety, what keeps you up at night.

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Yeah I'm not too concerned I, probably don't think about a fighter as much as I should because I do forget to turn things.

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Off often have you ever been through a fire built. We told you that you'd be coming here today for discussion, but what we didn't tell you is that there is also a demonstration of what I'll show you sound.

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I want to introduce you to Steve the director of the UL firefighter Safety Research Institute I'll. Let Steve take it away. Welcome my job is to lead a team of people that study how fire grows and spreads. So we can keep you safe here at the Delaware County Emergency Services Training Center. We essentially turn this place into a laboratory. We've got several structures around here that we build to simulate where you live, and one of those structures is right there behind me. What.

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I want you to do, is I want to.

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Take you inside here and I want you to see how this looks like your home and then once we get you outside we're going to go ahead and recreate what would happen if there was a fire.

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It doesn't look pretty.

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Normal yeah got some Furnishings you'll notice, the difference down here as we walk down, this bedroom door will be enclosed and the one at the end of the hall will be open, and what I want you to do is pay attention to comparison to two of those and think about you and your family trying to survive this fire all right. We just hit the button. We have ignition.

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My whole life there. She goes. Oh man, that is scary. It's scary, yeah.

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What a lot of people don't realize is that the Furnishings that are in our homes today are beta synthetic materials, so they burn so much faster than your old natural copper filled. Furnishings used to be the statistics that we've seen through our researches in about 40 years ago. You had about 17 minutes to get out of your house and smoke alarm sounded now. You have lost the freedom.

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Have you Survivor seriously, that is insane all right.

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Go ahead, knock it down.

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All right, as you remember, closed door on the left, open door on the right and.

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You can see the dramatic difference between the two with the simple closed door, wow.

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We want people to be as prepared as possible and understand the importance and how little time you have and what that simple barrier can provide to you and your family. Should you have a fire.

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I want you guys to throw some hard hats off and some safety glasses and at least poke your heads in the windows or you can even walk in the hallway. If you want give me a word or phrase to describe what you just saw invited.

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Terrifying I really didn't expect anything like this.

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That's dramatic difference now. I am.

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The lady we talked about synthetic materials, the Home Furnishings, if you have a fire in your home. This is how important it is to repeat smoke detectors. You need early detection, you do not have a lot of time and to practice sleeping with the door closed. That will provide protection and will give you time. If you can't escape to your normal route, then at least you can get to a window, and you have some barrier some protection with a closed door.

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The next thing is carbon monoxide detectors. The keys to carbon monoxide detect um carbon monoxide poisoning are it's odorless, colorless and tasteless carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is undetectable with your senses. The only way you will know this carbon monoxide in your home is, if you have a carbon monoxide detector, you need one on every floor.

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They should be outside your bedrooms and in the mechanical areas, whether it's basement garage, you should have carbon monoxide detectors. Early detection of carbon carbon monoxide is critical um again. There's no warning that it's there. It's caused by incomplete combustion from heating equipment, but even in the summer you could have an automobile running too close to a building. The exhaust could be too close to a basement window where you could get carbon monoxide from the combustion of the engine pump into a home generators.

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Another cores of carbon monoxide poisoning, you have a generator generator running too close to the home, and the exhaust fumes can get into the hole so smoke. Detectives carbon monoxide detectors can't express how dramatically important they ought to the safety of your family and a couple of carbon monoxide facts. A person could be poisoned by a small amount of carbon monoxide over a longer period of time. There's a cumulative effect to carbon monoxide poisoning.

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um You want a carbon monoxide alarm that is UL tested and again you should test them once a month and if they're battery operated the batteries need to be changed every six months.

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um Sometimes you hear a small chirp from your detectives. That's very occasional, like every several minutes. Normally, that's a low battery detection. One last thing on smoke and carbon monoxide detectors is local. Detectives with the batteries are good for your bedrooms and local areas, but in newer construction and all of your common areas, they're tied together with hard wiring Hardware detectors, still need batteries so that when you lose power that they work, so you have a hard wire detector. That's tripping, you think, wait, it's powered! Why is it chirping?

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It still has a battery backup unless it's one of the newest sealed units.

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um Cooking safety, most of the Flyers that start your home, stop around the kitchen area. Obviously the single most important thing you can do is have a clean area clean of the clear of debris when you're cooking.

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Keep children away from your cooking surface at least three feet: never! Leave your food unattended.

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You see in this uh caricature here that there's a lid there uh if you're cooking and you have food on the stove, especially if you're fried with oil. You know whether you're deep frying or sauteing, you never leave the stovetop. Never leave to run to the bathroom leaves to get to the phone you get distracted very easily and A flammable liquid fire, because that's what a grease fire is. It's a flammable liquid fire in your kitchen. It can spread rapidly. It's like pouring gasoline around your kitchen, so anytime, you cooking at the stove.

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You should stay at the stove. Don't leave your food unattended if something Catch Fire and catches fire in your presence turn off the element, whether it's gas or electric and slide a lid over it. That's all you need to do. Don't ever try to move it to the sink. Don't try to Move It Outdoors you're, going to be carrying flammable liquids, you'll burn yourself and you're going to catch your home on fire. So it's very important for cooking safety. Most fires in the home start in the kitchen people forget they have their food on.

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They leave. They fall asleep, they go into the phone single. Most important thing you can do is have a lid and stay next to the kitchen area, when you're cooking.

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Also as part of your home safety plan, besides smoke and carbon monoxide detectives, besides, cooking safety is to have an Escape Route and a meeting place in front of your home. We've seen how fast these fires can burn and spread you're not going to know if everyone got out unless you have a place to meet, so you should have a plan with your family and your neighbors to meet at a certain location so that you could tell that everyone is out of the building. Yes,.

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Is it advisable to have a small fire extinguishers around, or is that just oh.

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Yes, absolutely having a a multi-purpose um dry chemical extinguisher in your home, absolutely especially in the kitchen area. If it does spread beyond what you can control with a lid, you can definitely expend an extinguisher, but what you should do is go with. The lid first call 9-1-1 a lot of times, people that are not um used to operating extinguishers. They may delay calling the fire department trying to do that.

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So, yes, uh extinguishers are very important, they're, very good to have in your home and if they're outside what you can do with your sliding, a cover they're, a great thing to have in the home. Yes make sure it doesn't delay activation of the 911 system and again these Escape Routes are just to make sure that hey everybody's here we got everybody out you you don't want. We don't want to show up, think that we're searching for victims that you guys know have already evacuated safely.

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Okay, so talking about some of the more modern dangers within your home lithium ion batteries everywhere, they're in your phones, they're in your computers, but now there's larger battery packs in what we call mobile Mobility devices. You'll see the lithium ion powered scooters that delivery, folks use and people just use for general transportation, they're in wheelchairs, they're more prevalent today than ever before.

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Lithium-Ion batteries have a problem: the energy efficient they're good for the environment in a certain way, but when they catch fire they burn rapidly, they give off toxic fumes and fire spreads very quickly.

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This is a major problem in the city of New York right now, because there's so many delivery people in the city that these mobile devices are everywhere and people are coming home at night, they're, taking them into their Apartments they're, leaving they're leaving them in stairways and when they catch fire you're going to see how dramatic it is and we'll talk a little bit more, but I think this will give you a good idea.

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What does two teenagers dangle five stories above ground desperately trying to escape The Inferno that engulfed their apartment at the Jacob Reed houses? The.

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Fire caused by several exploding.

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E-Bikes charging.

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Overnight this fire was caused by Lithium-ion batteries from an e-bike and this apartment. There were at least seven of these e-bikes.

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Lithium-Ion batteries are.

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Malfunctioning, but this Flames could be seen shooting from the window, as residents attempted to escape the.

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Intensity of this flyer was such that it blew the windows out and actually blew a wall down within the apartment. On top of the bed in which these teenagers were sleeping, the.

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Video shows these two teens made it out alive. They are the lucky ones, one man is dead and a woman is clinging to life. It.

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Was only because of their youth and athletic prowess and their ability to climb out a window and shimmy down a pipe that this fire was not even more tragic.

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Clear whether the issue is with the battery itself or if after or parts were in use so far,.

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The number of fires due.

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To lithium-ion batteries is more than double this year over last and that's before the Christmas holiday, when toys and scooters that rely on these types of batteries are traditionally hot ticket items.

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What does two teenagers dangle.

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So the single biggest cause of lithium-ion battery fires in mobile devices is uh incompatible incompatible charging devices, aftermarket charges or charging damaged equipment. So it's important to buy UL approved Lithium-ion batteries in the products that you buy and it's important to use the factory issued equipment to charge them and, if at all possible, don't charge them overnight. We have one more video on this topic that will definitely send on the message.

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This demonstration shows what it looks like when a Lithium-Ion battery fails and Sparks a firing, often because of faulty design or overcharging those batteries causing more than 200 fires in New York, City alone.

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Year, injuring 147 people and killing six and look at this battery Touching Fire and exploding next to a child startup charge. 85 4. we've met with researchers in Pennsylvania to.

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Happens when a Lithium-Ion battery is purposely overcharged and fails starting a fire, we aren't here with Steve Kerber. He is with ul's Fire Safety Research Institute, so see we're actually inside of a.

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Home built to burn, we study how fire grows and spreads, and we've purposely instrument it. So we can figure out how to keep people safe for immersion, Technologies.

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Like this Kerber and his team outfitted this 1600 square foot house with everything you find in the typical American home, then they ripped it with cameras and an array of sensors that measure heat and gases.

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It's going to catch fire, it's going to release a lot of gas and we're going to see an explosion. Researchers.

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Removed the safety features on the battery to ensure it would fail after two hours of overcharging, the scooter smell it 17 seconds later.

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The explosion buckled the windows. This is what it looked like from the inside 12 minutes later, the living area engulfed it was too toxic for us to get into the home after the fire, but here's what it looked like inside after Kerber ran a similar test. Two weeks earlier, it happened.

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So fast doesn't give people a lot of time.

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It's not just e-scooters and bikes. These batteries, Power electric vehicles, they're also used in energy storage systems to store solar energy, Hunter player and Justin Lopez experienced the force of a Lithium-Ion battery fire first hand in 2019.. Originally we thought it was a Transformer fire. The.

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Peoria Arizona fire.

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Captains responded to a call at a facility containing thousands of Lithium-ion batteries used to store energy for the power grid. You needed to make sure it was safe for the workers to go back into this building exactly.

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So they could fix whatever their ultimate problem was and as we went to leave at that point in time it ignited right. It blew up I, don't remember the explosion to remember.

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Anything from there the force blew both men under a chain-link fence. Lopez landed, 30 feet away, Claire 70 feet. The men had nearly died, both suffered brain trauma, broken bones and multiple Burns. How are you.

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Doing today doing pretty good all things considered, you know just happy to.

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Be alive, they're now sounding the alarm that these battery failures can be lethal. Any statements to NBC News, the battery industry says failures are rare and the technology continues to be a safe and cost-effective way to provide reliable, clean energy to Consumers, and they are collaborating with emergency response governmental agencies to increase awareness to avoid this buy batteries that are certified by a lab like UL or Intertech. Don't overcharge batteries or leave them charging unattended?

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If you see smoke from the battery get out quickly and call 9-1-1 best practices to safely live with this new technology.

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So that's. The big question is: where can you this time.

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So it just to wrap up the lithium ion battery portion of this. This is going to become more prevalent as more and more of these devices around the world. So um it's important that you understand that they're in everything from as small as your phone to Mobility devices, but this is what's powering these new electric vehicles and they are not very easy to put out. You need copious copious amounts of water to put these out, even though it's an electrical equipment. The only thing that will put these fires out is copious amounts of water.

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So the worst thing it can happen to see this thing smoking. You try to get it out in your stairway and you try to get it to another room and the thing explodes the gas is super toxic for us. It's another Hazard and the disposal of these things when we're done is actually a hazardous materials incident, so be really familiar with these lithium-ion devices and always use Factory authorized Chargers, don't charge them overnight and don't charge damage, equipment.

J

Some of the cars in particular you have to charge overnight. It takes eight hours to charge them up. I.

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Get it, but you know your car I'm talking about the mobility devices yeah your car's outside normally um close to the house like and with a lot of battery in it. This and you're right. You might not have a choice but charging overnight with a vehicle or with a Mobility device. These are prone to failure, there's probably more safety, um probably less likely to overcharge or use it incompatible and ultimately charging with a vehicle with the with the mobility devices.

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People are you know, taking batteries one to another, they're buying aftermarket charges when they lose their own or they don't function anymore so, uh and these they're putting these in their living rooms, they're putting them in their hallways and um it's a major major problem, and you know, as they become more prevalent, we're going to get more and more fires caused by them.

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So other than we're getting rid of my kids Segway when I get home, um um you mentioned some of the other devices like laptops and cell phones are those like I mean because now I'm, just a little paranoid, I'm not gonna lie. um Normally, we leave these things. Charging overnight, like my laptop or like or I, have a docking station that we, you know even here at the chamber. Sometimes we leave some electronic devices.

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um Charging I mean how much that's significant and I can see the e-bikes and and the scooters, but talk to me more about more commonly used devices like the laptops, like the um cell phones and things of that nature. So.

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Same rules apply use the Chargers that came with the equipment. They are much smaller, they're much more much less potential of that type of violent explosion. They can burn, they can be overcharged, they can't fail, but not to this extent. We see much less of them in uh in.

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Computer batteries and phone batteries remember the Galaxy s7s. There was a thing where a bunch of them were exploding when some of the Samsungs.

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You're, right and I think I saw that myself, where they showed videos that someone had in their pocket and started again. It.

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Just a mini failure or mini event that we showed with the actual Mobility device. If you think about these Mobility devices you're getting a pretty decent sized battery because they last quite a long time, they hold a lot of energy just by their size, the the phones and the computers they they hold much less energy less of a threat, but treat them the same. You know, don't don't have them in a pile of um cloth or fabric, don't use an incompatible charger, don't use wires that are broken um while we're talking about wires.

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Extension cords are a huge problem on the inside of homes, people using extension cords that are undersized for extra appliances, air conditioners. uh We have many many fires that are the result of improper use of extensions, I. Think problem with the um plug-in.

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Hybrid is too because you're not supposed to use extension cords because they're drawing 30 amps and they put a 10 amp extension cord and anything that draws.

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A lot of power don't use an extension cord air conditioners, charging electric vehicles, appliances uh really important, not to use these extension cords and we'll go into houses where they're running extension cords from room to room. You know different gauges of extension cords all connected together, major Hazard and heat is too right and little affordable heaters right. Yes, yes, um this was more focused on summer, but now that you've brought up space heaters, it's another great.

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Absolutely we'll talk about things. While you brought it up, I'm glad you did um space heaters, they should be plugged directly into an outlet as it was spread up and they need to be clear of any debris around them any fabric. You can't have them too close to your couch. You shouldn't leave them unattended. It should not be a primary form of heating. It should be supplemental while you're, awake and you're in the room, uh but the biggest problem is with those is extension towards.

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But to get back to what you said, the cell phones and computer batteries still a problem still follow safety tips, but less.

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Of a problem than the mobile devices is that why they started I remember at one point: they were really. um It was big at one point, the suitcases that you could charge your devices in and now those are pretty much kind of become obsolete. Is that kind of similar reason.

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Yeah and I think you've seen there's a couple of stories that have been in the news lately with a laptop battery on an airplane. um You know that could be a problem, so keep your eyes open for that. But if you see a device in a home in a Stairway make sure that people know what they're doing the next thing we're going to talk about, especially for the summer, is porch fire safety.

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um Due to the density of our neighborhoods, the thickly settled neighborhoods, we are predominantly wood frame and ordinary construction type, multi-level tenements um that have a secondary means of egressions from a back porch when they built up these areas. You know, years and years ago, wooden porches and the secondary means of egress being out that that made a tremendous fire threat in our densely built neighborhoods. What happens with porch fires is we'll talk about how they stop and how to prevent them. But the problem, the biggest problem with porch fires is it's a Tinderbox?

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Okay, it's Lumber dry, it's ready to burn, it can go undetected because it's in the backyard and by the time you see the smoke and the fire it can travel from house to house and neighborhood to Neighborhood rapidly.

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The biggest threat of to Neighborhood fires is porch fires and the most common cause of a porch fire is just kind of smoking materials. You throw a cigarette butt off the third floor. Porch it blows back into the first floor. Someone does that before they go to bed at night, a half hour later, the first four porches burning and within.

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The entire three Fortress of burning they're, impeding on the structure of origin and they're, threatening the exposed buildings, many and I I I'm, going to say most of the neighborhood fires. Where you see multiple homes involved in fire all around the metropolitan area. Listen to the news you're going to hear the fire started on a report.

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uh What can you do? You can't grow on a rear porch in the City of Charleston? We're too dense we're too thickly built. We have too many wooden rear porches. You have to grill on the ground level, 10 feet away, at least from any structure number two. If you smoke, you have to have either a you know: a can full of sand where you can fully extinguish your cigarette or drop it in water. You cannot throw smoking materials off any value. You know you might think it's just a small thing.

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It's going to burn out in two minutes: it's not it! It's going to stop dramatic um structure fires, so we can't talk too much about porch. We can't talk enough about porch fire safety. It's a major threat in any densely built inner city environment such as ours,.

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um And I'll give you one example. uh Last summer, August 17 2022 we're here in Chelsea we had a final on fire um which began on a ramp watch, prompting a reminder from me and the State Fire Marshal, on using caution with open Flames with red, porches balconies and decks. It's a major major problem. We had a fire alarm fire. We had firefighters to make a rescue from a ladder. Thankfully the others were able to self-evacuate, but- and we were able to keep this to the structure of origin.

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But this was uh this was a very, very bad fire. It was indicative of the dangers that we have in the inner city with rear point of buyers.

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And this is example of that those were all rare portraits. This was a rear, porch fire that took this entire structure and had damage to structures on both sides and again, because this is in the back of the house, if you're sitting out on the front steps in the summer- and you know just Gathering- you know late at night- you're not going to know this- is there until you see it or until you smell it and by the time you do it's going to look like that.

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Like we talked about, there's no true safe way to smoke, smoking in bed or smoking when you're, drowsy or impaired is dangerous period. But if you do smoke, you have to extinguish your smoking material in a can or a a heavy um heavy object full of sand. um The the slogan for this is put it out. Put it all the way out, every time never have it throw things off your balcony thinking, they're just going to go out.

B

That's basically what I have for you uh tonight is basically uh general home safety and some more specific summer, fire safety that we wanted to get out into the community. But you asked some great questions. Are there any other questions.

J

Yes, any any tips for businesses say that again any tips for businesses. Besides getting your extinguishers inspected every year, yeah.

B

So that's a good question for businesses. Keep your extinguishers checked every year. You have to have your alarm system checked um in a timely fashion. Some of them are annually. Some of them are quarterly, depending on what type of business and what type of facility it's in always update your notchbox keys. Most businesses have a knock-box. It's a security key box that the fire department has access to. So we can get into your building during the night.

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If there's a problem and if you have a sprinkler system in your building, make sure that that's regularly tested as well, but today, newer construction. We have a lot of new construction, that's wood frame, um it's still wood frame, it's still prone to Rapid Fire extension, but the evolution of sprinklers has made these areas much safer. So, with you know, Martin construction and if you have sprinklers in your in your building, make sure that they're maintained and make sure that they're tested.

H

Okay, the door is especially heavy and I was told it has to do with fire safety yeah.

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So, are you talking about your door to your like the hallway door? Yes, so every door, interior door is um provide less protection than that hallway door.

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The fire Service rates them in hours, so a heavy X door that leads from your your condo or your apartment into a hallway might have a two hour rating where an interior, Hollow four door may have a 30 minute rating, but very important if you live in an apartment building and you live in uh or a condo that has a public hallway if there is a fire in your apartment and you are exiting to close the door behind you.

B

So that's a really really good question and that's a really good uh safety reminder, especially in high rise and even even mid to low rise buildings. There's several stories tall. It takes time for the fire department to get there. It takes time for us to engineer getting a hose line up to where the fire is.

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You can get rapid fire spread by just leaving your apartment door, open as you wake just like the video yeah exactly, but if you, if you were to leave that up, not only your bedroom bill, but your apartment door, the heavy door like you're, saying, if you leave that open or you prop that open, of course, rapid fire spread. It allows the wind in the air from the outside.

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If you have an open window to just Fuel, That Fire and push it out to the public hallway simply closing a door can really mean the difference between containing a fire and losing a structure. The.

H

Door is set to close automatically it bends on you.

B

There you go, but they don't always work and people prompt them open. They put you know, door stops the um even in you know your public hallways, they always self-close, but you know make it warm and people prop them open like and they shouldn't and it causes fire spread. Smoke travel through the building.

H

I was worried about having if a child is trying to get up, they probably couldn't open that door and in the winter time, I guess the door expands. So it's even harder to open that door.

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Well, a lot of the what depends on the building, but a lot of them are steel doors. So you're not going to get that expansion, you would get with a heavy wood door. The safest thing is to keep those doors closer and remember to close it behind it.

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H

I have one general question: yes, as a fire department, what services do you offer to the community at large and how do you advertise them.

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What services do we offer as a fire department and show Emergency Operations.

H

Yeah I'm asking the questions: I lived in a community one time where a lot of the homes had very tall ceilings, so they would come out and change the batteries, because people really couldn't reach them.

B

So so, if I mean Emergency Operations, we are at all hazards fired upon. We respond to fires, hazardous materials, incidents, emergency medical, technical, uh technical rescue, high angle, rope, rescue trench rescue vehicle extrication, and we do numerous numerous service calls we are at all has inspired upon it. As far as Fire Prevention Services, we have a pretty active fire prevention division that um it does a lot of fire safety training for for kids around the schools. They do code enforcement and we do some Community tours for the Chelsea Community Schools program.

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As far as the changing of batteries with like high ceilings and things like that, um we wouldn't we. We would never tell someone who won't help them out, but it's not. We don't have the the man hours or the the availability to have a program to just do that. If we get lots of calls or we come upon homes that don't have any smoke detection still in this era, we still find that we find that there may be elderly people living alone, that don't have any smoke detection.

B

We will go out there, we'll install them for free, we'll, install them. uh Carbon dioxide detectives for free will help out as much as we can, but um for able-bodied people that have management and, and that have the means to do it themselves. We prefer that stay first line of defense, and but if they, if you haven't something, that's not working in your home and you have no one to help, you call us we will help you.

A

All right, oh great, thank you so much so we'd like to thank Chief Albanese for coming out and making this presentation. I have to say it was very informative for myself. I didn't know what to expect and I'm taking away a lot of information.

A

um We definitely want to try to run this series again. We appreciate everybody for coming out. In particular, our chief of police was always so supportive, Leo Robinson. Thank you for coming out as well. We do have these series once a month on the second Wednesday of every month, and this is open to the community. So please, if it's a nice day out, if it's not a nice day out, come out and visit us and learn more information about your community so again, thank you. So much.

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