CLEARFIELD – Nearly every day there is a fire reported on the news. Now is the time to practice prevention and preparedness.
Make your home fire-safe:
-Smoke alarms save lives. Install a smoke alarm outside each sleeping area and on each additional level of your home.
-If people sleep with doors closed, install smoke alarms inside sleeping areas, too.
-Use the test button to check each smoke alarm once a month. When necessary, replace batteries immediately. Replace all batteries at least once a year. Vacuum away cobwebs and dust from your smoke alarms monthly.
-Smoke alarms become less sensitive over time. Replace your smoke alarms every ten years.
-Consider having one or more working fire extinguishers in your home. Get training from the fire department in how to use them.
-Consider installing an automatic fire sprinkler system in your home.
-Be careful not to place space heaters or kerosene heaters too close to walls, curtains or anything that could easily catch fire.
-Have your furnace cleaned annually.
-Plan your escape routes
-Determine at least two ways to escape from every room of your home.
-Consider escape ladders for sleeping areas on the second or third floor. Learn how to use them and store them near the window.
-Select a location outside your home where everyone would meet after escaping.
-Practice your escape plan at least twice a year.
-Fire is one of the most common disasters. Fire causes more deaths than any other type of disaster. But fire doesn’t have to be deadly if you have early warning from a smoke detector and everyone in your family knows how to escape calmly.
-Please be serious about the responsibility of planning for and practicing what to do in case of a fire. Be prepared by having various household members do each of the items on the checklist below, then discuss and finalize your personal Fire Plan.
Escape safely
-Once you are out, stay out! Call the fire department from a neighbor’s home.
-If you see smoke or fire in your first escape route, use your second way out. If you must exit through
smoke, crawl low under the smoke to your exit.
-If you are escaping through a closed door, feel the door before opening it. If it is warm, use your second way out.
-If smoke, heat, or flames block your exit routes, stay in the room with the door closed. Signal for help using a bright-colored cloth at the window. If there is a telephone in the room, call the fire department and tell them where you are.
Please contact the office for more information to help you in your prevention and preparedness plan.
Order your Christmas Wreath today from the American Red Cross. Live, 20 inch Noble fir, decorated with juniper berries, incense cedar, pine cones and a bow. Delivery date is Nov. 28 and your cost is $20.00. Please call 765-5516 to order.
Our Annual Volunteer dinner is scheduled for Nov. 13 beginning at 5 p.m. with social hour. It will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church and everyone who has volunteered in the past year is invited. Volunteers are welcome to register by calling 765-5516. Jefferson County volunteer dinner will be held in the spring.
A multiphasic blood screening will be held at the Karthaus Community Alliance Church from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 10. This includes 35 multiphasic tests. For an additional fee, you may schedule prostate lab test for men and TSH (thyroid). Free oximeter and blood pressure screenings also available. Call 765-5516 to register before the Nov. 6 deadline.
Let us supply your Pies for the Christmas Holidays. 10” Pies for only $8.00 each. Delivery date will be Dec. 17. Apple, blackberry, peach, cherry, Pecan, Carmel apple walnut, and Pumpkin roll. You will see order forms in your place of business soon, or call the office to order and pick up at the office.
Health & Safety Classes:
Adult CPR – Clearfield – November 21
Brookville – November 7
Punxsutawney – November 5
Infant Child CPR – Clearfield – November 8
First Aid – Clearfield – November 15
Brookville – November 6
Punxsutawney – November 9
All of the above classes begin at 6 p.m. Call 765-5516 to register in Clearfield or 849-2712 to register in Brookville & Punxsutawney.
Clearfield Bloodmobile Schedule
Nov. 12 Trinity United Methodist Church 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Nov. 16 438 Front Place 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Nov. 17 Curwensville Family Moose Center 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Nov. 21 Quehanna Boot Camp 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Jefferson Bloodmobile Schedule
Nov.9 Grace United Methodist Church-Sykesville Noon -6 p.m.
Nov.13 Saint Tobias Church Brockway Noon -6 p.m.
Nov 16 Calvary Church of the Nazarene-Brookville Noon -6 p.m.
Nov. 16 Punxsutawney Christian School Noon -6 p.m.
Nov. 20 Masonic Lodge-Reynoldsville 1 p.m.-7 p.m.
Nov. 23 War Memorial-Big Run Noon-5:30 p.m.
The American Red Cross is a non-profit organization funded in part by United Way and by your generous donations Please support your Clearfield-Jefferson American Red Cross. Checks may be sent to Clearfield-Jefferson Chapter, 1100 S. Second St. Suite 2, Clearfield, Pa 16830, or Clearfield-Jefferson Chapter, 275 Main St., Brookville, Pa 15825. VISA and MasterCard are accepted.
Red Cross is a United Way and United Fund Participating Agency and an RSVP Station.