1. How to Prevent Cooking Fires and Related Injuries
Possible illustration of an oven mitt and/or a pan with fire covered by universal “NO” sign.
To introduce the art style for the illustrations and symbolize the subject of cooking fires.
Consider reusing this “logo” on some other slides where no other illustration is indicated.
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2. The cooking fire problem.
Cooking is the leading cause of home fires and fire injuries.
1 in 8 households will have a cooking fire each year.
The leading cause of kitchen fires is unattended cooking.
No illustrations necessary.
Lesson plan – Most cooking fires are not reported to the fire department.
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3. Steps to safe cooking. Watch what you heat. Stay alert.
Keep things that can catch fire away from heat.
Know what to do if you have a cooking fire.
Keep kids away from cooking area.
Prevent scalds and burns.
Install and use cooking appliances safely.
Have working smoke alarms.
No illustrations necessary.
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4. Watch what you heat!
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6. Watch what you heat! When you fry, grill, or broil:
Stay in the kitchen!
TURN OFF the stove if you leave the kitchen, even for a short time
Both bullets are messages that could use illustrations.
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7. Watch what you heat! When you simmer, bake, roast, or boil:
Stay in your home or apartment!
TURN OFF the stove if you leave your home, even for a short time.
Check on the cooking regularly.
Use a timer to help you remember that you’re cooking.
The first three bullets are messages that could use illustrations. The last bullet can be treated as part of the third bullet that precedes it.
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8. Stay alert!
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10. Stay alert! If you are not alert, you may have trouble:
controlling your cooking.
keeping things that burn away from heat.
keeping children and pets away from cooking.
Don’t cook if you are drowsy, have been drinking, or are using drugs.
Illustration(s) could illustrate someone struggling to perform one or more of the listed tasks in first bullet as a result of one or more of the alertness-reducing influences listed in the second bullet. Drowsiness is probably the easiest to illustrate.
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11. Keep things that can catch fire away from heat.
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13. Keep things that can catch fire away from heat.
Keep things that can catch fire away from your stovetop!
Things that can catch fire include:
potholders and oven mitts
bags and boxes
towels and curtains
Don’t store things that can catch fire in or near an oven, microwave oven, or toaster oven!
We talked about an illustration of the first bullet only, using at most one or two of the burnables listed under the third bullet, specifically oven mitts (easy to draw in a recognizable form) and maybe curtains.
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14. Keep things that can catch fire away from heat.
Keep stovetop, burners and oven clean.
Wear tight-fitting, rolled-up or short sleeves when cooking.
These are two messages but might be dealt with using one illustration, showing someone with close fitting sleeves, one of which is rolled up, scrubbing food and grease off the stove top.
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15. If your clothes catch fire:
STOP, DROP, AND ROLL! STOP immediately. DROP to the ground and cover your face with your hands. ROLL over and over or back and forth to put out the fire.
Cool the burn with cool water for 3-5 minutes. Seek medical treatment immediately.
Display in sidebar color format.
No illustration.
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16. Know what to do if you have a cooking fire.
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18. Know what to do if you have a cooking fire.
When in doubt, just get out!
When you leave, close the door behind you to help contain the fire.
Call 911 or the local emergency number after you leave.
If you do try to fight the fire, be sure:
Others are already getting out.
You have a clear path to the exit.
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19. Know what to do if you have a cooking fire.
Small grease fire confined to a pan on the burner.
Keep an oven mitt and lid that fits the pan nearby when you cook.
Wearing your oven mitt, smother the fire by carefully sliding the lid over the pan.
Turn off the burner.
Do not move the pan.
Keep lid on until pan is completely cool.
Need illustrations to demonstrate the first two bullets because that action sequence may be hard for some to fully visualize. Last two steps (bullets) are self-evident (third bullet) or not easy to illustrate and self-evident (last bullet). Last bullet could have a stopwatch Instructor might make point that 3rd bullet comes 3rd because we don’t want people reaching over a fire to reach the controls.
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20. What to do if you have a cooking fire.
Oven or microwave oven fires:
Turn off the oven.
Keep oven door closed.
Unplug the microwave oven if you can safely reach the outlet.
Have the equipment checked and serviced before you use it again.
This may not lend itself to illustration. All actions are self-evident.
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21. Keep kids away from the cooking area.
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23. Keep kids away from the cooking area!
Have a “kid-free zone” of 3 feet around:
the stove
areas where hot food or drink is prepared, placed or carried
Never hold a child while cooking, drinking or carrying hot foods or liquids.
The lesson plan and/or presentation script should note that the “kid-free zone” is for young children and the protected area should include anywhere hot food or drink is being prepared or carried. Illustration should focus on first bullet message and show kids and pets completely outside the kitchen but still within eyesight so parents can be confident that they are being supervised.
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24. Prevent scalds and burns.
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26. Prevent Scalds and Burns
Place objects where they cannot be pulled over or knocked over:
Turn pot handles away from the stove’s edge.
Use the stove’s back burners to keep hot things further away from young children.
Keep hot foods and liquids away from table and counter edges.
Keep appliance cords coiled and away from counter edges.
A picture of a counter with a toaster or coffee maker on the counter, positioned next to the stovetop, could allow one illustration to show the first two or three bullets. If you pull back to show a kitchen table, you could show more of bullet #3. Looking for one illustration max on the three messages in this slide.
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27. Prevent scalds and burns.
Microwave oven usage:
Never use aluminum foil or metal objects in a microwave oven.
Use only microwave-safe cookware (containers or dishes).
No illustration needed.
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28. Prevent scalds and burns.
Food heated by microwave oven:
Open microwaved food slowly, away from the face.
Hot steam escaping from a container of microwaved food or the food itself can cause burns.
Illustration of first bullet could be useful but not as important as other messages.
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29. Prevent scalds and burns.
Teach children:
That hot things burn.
Safe cooking behaviors (when children are old enough)
No illustrations needed.
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30. Cool the burn with cool water for 3 to 5 minutes
If someone is burned:
COOL A BURN
Cool the burn with cool water for 3 to 5 minutes
If the burn is bigger than your fist, or if you have any questions, seek medical attention right away.
Sidebar format so no illustration.
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31. Install and use cooking appliances safely.
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32. Install and use cooking appliances safely.
Always use cooking equipment tested and approved by a recognized testing facility.
Follow manufacturer’s instructions and code requirements when installing and operating cooking equipment.
No illustrations needed.
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33. Install and use cooking appliances safely.
Never use an extension cord for a cooking appliance, as it can overload the circuit and cause a fire.
Illustration optional, but if used, illustrate with a microwave oven.
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34. Have working smoke alarms.
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36. Have working smoke alarms.
Install smoke alarms:
In each sleeping room.
Outside each sleeping area.
On every level of your home.
This should be another sidebar slide. No illustrations.
Lesson Plan – For best protection, interconnect smoke alarms throughout the home
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37. Have working smoke alarms.
Test each smoke alarm at least monthly.
Install a new battery in all conventional alarms at least once a year.
If the smoke alarm chirps, install a new battery in a conventional smoke alarm.
Replace the smoke alarm if it has a 10-year battery
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38. Have working smoke alarms.
Prevent nuisance alarms during cooking:
Move smoke alarms farther away from the kitchen.
Install a smoke alarm with a silence button.
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39. Have working smoke alarms.
If a smoke alarm sounds during normal cooking:
Press the silence button if the smoke alarm has one.
Open the door or window or fan the area with a towel to get the air moving.
Do not disable the smoke alarm or take out the batteries.
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40. Summary
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41. Steps to safe cooking. Watch what you heat. Stay alert.
Keep things that can catch fire away from heat.
Know what to do if you have a cooking fire.
Keep kids away from cooking area.
Prevent scalds and burns.
Install and use cooking appliances safely.
Have working smoke alarms.
This now exactly reproduces the intro slide. No illustration needed.
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42. For more information:
Contact your local fire department, or log onto the U.S. Fire Administration’s website at
THANK YOU.
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