Preventing Cigarette Fires

2/9/2022 (Permalink)

By following these easy tips, you will eliminate a chance of a fire starting in your home. If you need our services, call us at 573-346-7200!

As we all know, if someone wants to do something that isn’t recommended, they will more than likely do it. One of those unrecommended habits is smoking cigarettes inside their home, which increases your likelihood of having a house fire. However, we would wish that our clients would move outside when smoking we know that with it being winter, someone going out to smoke decreases.

• Clean out Ashtray
  • The real risk is when someone lights up and frequently lays it down in the ashtray still ignited. When the ashtray isn’t cleaned regularly, you increase the backup of ash in the dish. When someone lays down an ignited cigarette, the hot end can touch the ash and create a fire.
• Falling Asleep While Smoking
  • On average, in the United States, smoking cigarettes has caused one in twenty (5%) house fires when the smoker falls asleep. This is dangerous for falling asleep as the cigarette will start a fire next to the impaired person. This doesn’t provide ample time to wake up and extinguish the fire accurately.
• Extinguish the Cigarette
  • When you are all done with the cigarette, we suggest making sure it is extinguished fully before discarding. This wouldn’t allow any chance of the cigarette to grow into a more significant situation.

Although we would love to move your smoking outside, we know that it might be more appealing to smoke inside to avoid the winter weather with below-freezing temperatures. SERVPRO of Lake of the Ozarks will always be here for all of your restoration needs.