Making your home safer by recognizing and properly storing household hazardous materials.

Household hazardous materials are common everyday products sold in your neighborhood supermarket. Used properly and for their intended use, these items are safe. But when mixed by the violence of Earthquake or fire, these items can become very volatile and can cause serious and even death. In the following page or two, we will try to explain these materials and give general suggestions on proper storage. Hopefully following these guidelines will minimize possible harm to your family and home.

We are going to use the following three categories to group all hazardous materials:

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Safety Tips for Motorists in Emergencies

All of us suffer from it, the insatiable love affair with our automobiles. Everyday we drive the streets of America not realizing that disaster can strike at any time. But why think about an Earthquake, Hurricane, Flood, Tornado, Blizzard or the Hot Summer Heat when you are already to busy avoiding everybody else on the road with you and some how managing to talk on your cell phone, put on makeup, read the newspaper or shave. Too much to remember? What we are about to tell you is not an only needed, but if you plan on living long enough to make it to tomorrow, you not only need to remember it but you need to properly prepare yourself and your vehicle. I will be the first one to say that these disasters do not happen everyday, but when they do this following information can save your life. After almost every disaster, Search & rescue personnel find victims who might have survived if they had known whether to stay or leave their vehicles. The following tips are for drivers in various emergencies.

Rule #1

DO NOT PANIC! KEEP A COOL HEAD AND REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING:

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Imagine taking your family to the county fair. It’s a beautiful warm summer night scheduled to be topped off by a spectacular fireworks display. Your two young children proudly carry the stuffed animals and prizes that they’ve won throughout the day.

You start to work your way towards the area of the fairgrounds where the fireworks can best be viewed, and you hear what sounds like firecrackers being set off nearby. Only pieces of pavement are being kicked up at your feet and you hear high-pitched whizzing sounds past your head, not realizing that they are bullets.

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Huh? They want me to buy what? A Shredder? What the heck is a shredder? And what’s a shredder going to do towards keeping us from being victimized by crime?

Let me tell you something right here and now. There are thousands of people across the United States that are going to bed for the night with an open invitation to burglars and crooks who will prowl your neighborhoods under the cover of darkness.

Your vehicle is hopefully locked and secure, but what’s scary is the thought of hundred’s of people reading this who are now saying, “Gee I don’t know if it’s locked or not…”

Your garage door is hopefully locked as well as your side garage door, but how many of you will go out right now and find that you left it open? Depending on where you live and what time of night it is, you could very well find someone INSIDE your garage RIGHT NOW!

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