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A Case for Safety
Store handyman safety gear (eyewear, ear plugs, etc.) all in one place.
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Ad-dress for Success
Make sure everyone's got your number!
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Area Rug Corner Control
How to make area rugs lay flat and keep corners down!
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Battery Update
Extra batteries help weather the storm...but how long can you store them?
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Be a Middle Man
How balance lends a hand when you are a middle man…
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Buried Cable Marker Tape
Avoid a big mistake by burying a yellow caution marker tape.
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Can you dig it?
Digging can be hazardous?unless you call ?BUD? for advice?
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Canned Safety Gear
Keep safety gear handy (and dirt- and dust-free) with a portable or fixed kit.
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Carbon Monoxide / No Joke
One thing to took seriously is the danger of carbon monoxide. It’s odorless, tasteless, invisible and no joke.
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Carbon Monoxide Dangers
You'll sleep better knowing your family is safe and sound.
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Carbon Monoxide Detectors
Detecting the tasteless, odorless and invisible enemy.
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Carbon Monoxide No Joke
How you can detect the invisible threat of carbon monoxide.
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Carbon Monoxide Reminder
Think warm weather signals the end of carbon monoxide danger? Think again!
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Carbon Monoxide Safety
If a home is properly vented and is free of malfunctioning appliances, carbon monoxide will most likely be safely vented to the outside.
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Careful Toxic Waste Disposal
Every year 350 million gallons of used motor oil are dumped into storm drains.
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Carrying 4 X 8?s
How to carry full sheets alone like a pro.
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Cell Phone 911
The amazing fact of how and why old cell phones never die!
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Check Water Heater TPRVs
What to do when you enter "the water-heater pressure zone?"
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Child injury prevention
How to save the day?and be a household hero? safety-wise?
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Child Safety/Injury Prevention
Create "safe" areas in your home away from risk where kids can be watched and "no zones" where they are NEVER to go.
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Child-proof your Home
Before kids run and play, kid-proof for kids'goofs.
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Childproof Your Home
Care and forethought can mean years of comfort and peace of mind for you and your little loved ones.
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Childproofing Your Home
Childproofing your home involves common sense.
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Childproofing Your Home
Folding-door gates can keep little ones where you want them and out of danger.
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Columbus Discovers Wet Rocks
With cold weather just around the corner, there are things you can do to protect friends and loved ones from dangers caused by wet and slippery surfaces.
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Cutting Pressure-Treated Material
Although pressure-treated material can be cut, screwed and nailed like other types of lumber, there are precautions that should be taken when working with it.
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Deck The Halls - With Caution
Beware! Beautiful holiday floral arrangements can have hidden danger!
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Deck the Halls with care
Decorating with poinsettias, holly, mistletoe or a Christmas rose? Do beware?
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DUI: Driving under the influenza
There's another kind of DUI: driving under the influenza also affects you.
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Ear Protection / Listen Up
Ear protectors can save our hearing from all the wonderful tools and conveniences that make our world better and easier.
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Earthquake! Are you ready?
How and why to prepare...'cause earthquakes "happen"... anytime, anywhere!
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Easing Eyestrain
Rest: Make sure the "eyes" have it!
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Emergency Candlelight
Stormy blackout at night? Make things right with temporary candlelight.
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Emergency Candlelight
You can make a long-burning light by pouring cooking oil into a glass measuring cup and suspending a short string in the center for a wick.
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Emergency preparedness
When faced with any kind of disaster…being prepared will help you outlast it…
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En-lightning facts and info
En-lightning facts and info every man, woman and child needs to know.
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Especially for Seniors
When older folks go to bed, a rolled-up bath towel slipped inside a pillowcase makes a handy neck support -- ideal for a good night’s sleep.
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Especially for Seniors
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Extension Ladder Setup
If an extension ladder plays a role in your day, set it up right so it's stable and safe.
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Exterior House Check
Winter is a good time for an exterior house check.
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Fire Extinguisher ABCs
Should a home fire occur, remember the letters P A S S for Pull, Aim, Squeeze and Sweep.
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Fire Season Protection
How to protect your home from fire and flames. You might have to fight alone.
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Fire Season Readiness
How to protect your home...weather it has been wetter or drier than usual.
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Fire-extinguisher ABCs
There are three types or classes of extinguishers for different kinds of fires.
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Fire-prevention Safety Tips
As you begin closing up for cool weather, check flammable liquids in your home. More than small amounts are mighty risky.
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Fire-prevention Safety Tips
As you begin closing up for cool weather, check flammable liquids in your home. More than small amounts are mighty risky.
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Fired-Up Home Technology
The California wildfires burned 740,000 acres, destroyed 3,600 homes, and took 22 lives. Today you'll learn how ?fired-up? home technology is helping ensure that this type of disaster won't happen again!
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Fires by Candlelight
How to prevent a fire by keeping candles from going haywire!
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First Aid Update
How to do things better when minutes count and you are the doctor.
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Floating Playground Surfaces
How to avoid a potential tragedy by not believing what you see.
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Garage Attic Ladders
When (and why) some garage attic ladders are okay...and others aren't safe.
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Garage Door Check-up
Three things to make sure your garage door works properly for you.
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Garage Safety
If your garage is attached to your house, deadly exhaust fumes can seep or be pulled into your home.
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Gas Shut-off Valve Test
In an emergency would you know how to turn off your home's gas?
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Glow-in-the-Dark Locators
How to always "hit the mark" with things that glow in the dark.
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Got Mold? DIY Test Kits
How to test your home. Is it OK, or should you get on the phone?
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Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters - Part 2
Adding ground fault circuit interrupter electrical outlets can protect you from severe electric shocks.
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Halloween safety reminder
Checklists of what to do—for homes—kids—and you! ooooooo!!!
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Handle with Care
Use foam-pipe insulation to protect the edges of mirrors or window panes when moving them about. Use the type with the center split so it slides on easily over the edges.
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Haste Makes (Hazardous) Waste
How to dispose of dead batteries and household toxic materials the easy way!
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Hear Muffs
Father's day gift idea? Make safety music to dad's ears!
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Hearing protection
How to protect your hearing-so you can keep on hearing-(can you hear me now?)
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Helmets and Safety Gear
Use, don't abuse, your head when riding bikes, skate boards or roller blades. Put on a helmet!
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High-tech Home Security
Do you have outdoor security lights at your house? If they’re on all night, they could be costing as much as $100 a year, not counting the cost of bulbs.
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Holiday Lights 1: Wired for Fire?
Some things to look for to be sure your home isn't wired for fire.
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Holiday Lights 2: Avoid Shocks
Some dos and don'ts to avoid getting electrical shocks.
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Holiday Lights Reminders
Create a bee-eautiful sight with outdoor Christmas lights done right!
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Home tests: Mold, Radon, Water
How to test your home to find: is it okay?or should you get on the phone?
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Honey-Do Don'ts
A few honey-do "don'ts" that will keep you from hurting yourself.
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Hot Water Temperature
How to avoid getting into hot water!
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Household Hazardous Waste
Top-10 “home hazardous waste” list -- know it, then stow it in the proper place!
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In-Home Fire Safety
Avoid becoming a statistic -- be prepared!
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In-Home Fire Safety
Your family's best protection lies in preventing fire.
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Incoming Critters
This is the time of year when little wild critters who didn’t head south for the winter want to be part of your cozy family.
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Installing Smoke Detectors
Buy plenty of smoke detectors. They're cheap -- life isn't.
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It's a Natural Gas
Gas in its natural state is clear and odorless, making it highly dangerous.
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Kid-proofing Your Home
Little ones in your home deserve special attention!
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Kids and Fires
How just a few precautions (and some education) can lower the risk of fire!
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Kitchen Burn Prevention
Don't wear a robe with big sleeves in the kitchen; it's a dangerous practice.
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Ladder Safety
There's no excuse for using an unsafe ladder.
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Ladder Types Govern Weights
Type governs weight in ladders and what you don't know matters.
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Lead Worries? Don't Worry!
For top-notch lubrication, get the lead (actually graphite) out!
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Leaving Home Secure
The best way to prevent home intruders is to avoid things that say "hey guys we're away!"
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Lightning protection
How to protect against lightning that's both destructive and frightening.
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Magnet Dragnet
Easy cleanup of nails and metal scraps that are left lying around after construction work.
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Medicine Chest Review
Gear your medicine chest for home nursing with bandages, rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, burn ointment and standard cold and headache goodies.
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More Child-proofing Tips
Air holes in a toy box, spring-loaded safety hinges and a little loving advice will keep your child safe.
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National Poison Control Number
Quick help is now close at hand...with one 800 number for all the land!
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Natural gas leaks
How to avoid a serious blast that reduces "overhead" real fast.
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New Propane Tanks
Don't run out of LP gas and luck -- right in the middle of cooking dinner.
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Oops-Proof Play Areas
Kids play hard. Remove yard dangers so they "stay safe/play safe" every day.
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Outdoor Security Lighting
A motion detector acts as an automatic switch, turning a light on whenever it senses motion in the area.
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Outdoor Summer Safety
Next time someone tells you to "go fly a kite," read this before doing so!
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Photo luminescent Technology
One of the latest high-tech material innovations to help you safely "see."
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Portable Electric Heaters
Using a space heater to stay warm? Make fire safety the norm.
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Preventing Home Fires
For safety's sake, check flammable liquids in your home.
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Protect Children by Locking Up Poisons
An unusual but welcome baby gift.
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Radon Alert
Your best defense for radon is a test kit.
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Rainy Days "Dos" and "Don'ts"
Record rain requires caution.
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Rx for medicine chests
What we prescribe you should do for a medicine chest review.
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Safe Social-climbing
When using an extension ladder, set the bottom out one-fourth the ladder's height from the wall. Make sure feet have firm support, and keep hips between side rails.
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Safe Social-climbing
When using an extension ladder, set the bottom out one-fourth the ladder's height from the wall. Make sure feet have firm support, and keep hips between side rails.
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Safer water heaters
New improvements help homeowners defeat dangerous fumes?
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Safety Eyewear
Learn different types, what they do, and what protection is right for you.
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Safety Gear
An Ounce of Prevention...
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Saving Face... And More
When you work in your shop at home, safety gear is essential.
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Shocking Safety Tips
Today, high-voltage danger lurks all around us -- overhead, underground and in stormy skies. So, think "safety" when using metal ladders and trimming trees.
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Shocking Safety Tips
Today, high-voltage danger lurks all around us -- overhead, underground and in stormy skies. So, think "safety" when using metal ladders and trimming trees.
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Slick Concrete?
How to provide "social security" when concrete is far too smooth and slippery.
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Slip-resistant Strips - Part 1
Some things you can do to make washing and bathing safer.
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Slippery Slope
Been "slipping and sliding" lately..? How to step-up to landscape safety.
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Smart Smoke Alarms
No false alarms when your detector "sniffs out" smoke that's a joke!
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Smoke alarm false alarms
Here's why smoke alarms act up and sometimes go down.
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Smoke Detector Alarm Alert
For safety's sake replace an older smoke-detecting unit; then you'll know it'll be working when you need it.
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Smoke Detector Care
Caring for your smoke detectors should be done like clockwork.
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Smoke Detector Check-up
Let setting clocks be your reminder to put fresh batteries in smoke detectors!
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Stairway Safety Tips
Friends and relatives will soon be calling -- Keep them and other folks from falling!
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Stop Slippin' and Slidin'
Wipe up spills or wet tracks on waxed floors to prevent human spills.
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Storing Flammable Liquids
Don't keep any excess gas in your home or garage. Doing so is a sure-fire sure fire.
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Storing Flammables
Children are vulnerable to flammables.
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Storm rooms
Having a 'storm room' retreat protects you and your family from flying debris
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Stuff Happens!
Be safety-prepared when you undertake home repairs.
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Stylish Kitchen Safety
Wondering what to get her for Mothers' Day? Here's a different approach.
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Sunscreen Facts
Bikini alert! When largely uncovered, cover up with SFP 15 or higher.
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Take a Healthy Look at Lead
Get the lead out!
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Test that Gas Line
The importance of making good connections.
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This BUD's For You
Digging a hole for fence posts or planting a tree can be hazardous. Call BUD for advice.
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Time for a change..?
When you Spring forward this year…is it time to change more than just time?
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Time to Change/Time to Check
This year when you "spring forward," there's another thing of importance to accomplish.
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Timely Advice
"Spring forward" in a way... that saves the day... and (maybe) lives too!
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Traction Control Tips
It's not trash.. it's traction..
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Treated Wood Update
Arsenic has been phased out but don't panic (even though they've banned it!)
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Use Caution When Disposing of Toxics
Disposing waste properly can save others from being wasted.
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Vent Check After Roofing
Inspect attic roof vents to prevent accidents.
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Vocal Smoke Detector
Be sure kids know what to do...with smoke alarms that sound like you !
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Welcome Safety Check
Preventing falls from wet-and-slippery surfaces is the best "welcome" you can give family and visitors.
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West Nile Virus Reminder
Enjoying the last big weekend of summer? A timely reminder to 'take care'!
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Wildfire Reminder
Wildfire season is here again?which means: it's time for prevention action!
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Winter Weather Advisories
How to anticipate snowy and icy by learning weather service advisories.
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Yard and Pool Gate Safety
How to prevent accidents by adding ?gate spring closure? to your fence!
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